Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 695ab6811889ef24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2020-11-27 10:07:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3404710d31d6891856419fd0e08f79fe SHA-1: b829500cdf3f08517e40a46c52639399249681e5 SHA-256: 695ab6811889ef24158f1ccfecf5beccf6c9c4c2795065da7cac843b6c08dc34
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ggtraff.ru/aws?utm_term=guided+reading+book+level+chart', is identified as malicious. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/aws?utm_term=guided+reading+book+level+chart In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384145/normal_5f9ceb2934a9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457570/normal_5fafa6679c33e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492575/normal_5faf8ecfa1a62.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421366/normal_5fbdd21a49524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemezomar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134711889/7974597.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/42c8412c-e30e-43e6-93dd-0bb9aefe11d2/70633060726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tofizo/56894572770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/52e9f172-8dc6-4b41-8392-f4a322945536/ratezupanorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2a1282a-bfee-47d6-95a9-9ffb8f01013b/kennedy_middle_school_hannibal_ny_address.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e988c416-b205-4cc9-885e-7dcee29979b6/guitar_hero_iii_legends_of_rock_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bojafazes/buverekot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sigobija/36272885715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2ef0a62c-ab6d-49c9-b54e-8be190fce4bf/coins_and_scrolls.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sedimeraxufi/constructive_criticism_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tanapilamaxi/lavasu.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_off0000dbbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBBE 5320 bytes
SHA-256: e82ac49bd6e0eac3d3df313e84fa36e5467025652ac52560edde9abf0ebe23c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000edd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD7 10248 bytes
SHA-256: d8828d9d668b84695f033c6d41071c29bc6acfb3d2da49727831d7b821cf1750