Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66cc5837128418e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-10-30 15:43:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 668262eca79c7ee37e556f0e38f7c86c SHA-1: 14c857f4a442e829b2eb80314401394412299928 SHA-256: 66cc5837128418e9e63998eacdc21c7aaa02d679c95370c89a99aa70f31d73fd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure to download a PDF, which likely leads to the malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=options+as+a+strategic+investment+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nipaxibovaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379211/tejebabeni-nesevofowafejo-gulufasobeger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetutinafo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775845/lifufatanuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/542aa7c1-1887-4c20-bba5-14bc2677dbff/jogalezojegogusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/0494/3295/files/mont_blanc_card_holder_canada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0481/5693/4297/files/disney_child_stars_1960s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8134/3903/files/easy_books_in_german.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7507/5225/files/favuralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mipeboro/65805738147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6676/9058/files/64966335499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fe685927-948c-49fb-af3e-0f9b3a627b98/kenmore_elite_he3_front_load_dryer_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006291.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6291 5532 bytes
SHA-256: 9e00423cba170f1dcf49052d902b316133a4751377ea7e0717826bead87f8f9a
font_01_sfnt_off00007551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7551 10660 bytes
SHA-256: a69c51386d581131d5e1ac6d155eb73187a8e5084db4787923d985c665de5897