Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58fe64dff131aa09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2020-11-03 20:56:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a509595ee98dea9fafd4faee9e5a5bcd SHA-1: 755e482dba65d9aead436e91a5f9ec93e8ced511 SHA-256: 58fe64dff131aa09df0fe14ef63c4cccb89edb36cd56b190a0de4e1dd7e35d01
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a malicious redirector. The primary URL, https://cctraff.ru/aws?keyword=goliath+druid+guide+pathfinder, is a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking it. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://cctraff.ru/aws?keyword=goliath+druid+guide+pathfinder
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384039/normal_5f9914e74854f.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369773/normal_5f87dbe23628e.pdf
    • https://boguvetasitob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380850/4072073.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377400/normal_5f90f18fdb5c6.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367302/normal_5f88ac97d9d0c.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369773/normal_5f8d1785c6dc1.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wipotegadodorek/20885521209.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7225dd24-8cfa-449e-82d3-2cfcd4c63207/xololepofaxima.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d4e84a5d-4c45-43d3-b350-7853ac5c6d08/29085861108.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2b6f262a-76bd-451a-85d9-742ab0b13fd7/gelezesefosekozatexodu.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jobavo/60039545347.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/metubevozisul/wewetirasunibarulimeka.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb4e.bin
77e8f86505563dc63878504d3d135d609d72efe6707c5620ac7ddcdc3641a073
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB4E 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcd2.bin
65e8b74a9de6d125cdfee178426eca08c80262e28ce60e18c607f4b67a7d62ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD2 14328 bytes