Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68d06e493e7c96c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.6 KB Created: 2020-11-02 18:23:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0734143b1147e11cefbd1d050bc89d12 SHA-1: 863d9dc188b3a70e0dc6b73d436c1fc066a057b3 SHA-256: 68d06e493e7c96c8563620f8e8be8dbc0a68540f80c50f703c947ce255ff215a
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is designed as a lure, presenting a screenshot of search results for 'reid funeral home l anse mi obits' to entice clicks. It contains a malicious redirector link to 'ggtraff.ru', which is a critical finding. The document also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many of which appear to be SEO spam, suggesting a link farm operation. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 16 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/aws?keyword=reid+funeral+home+l+anse+mi+obits
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