Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a076660ba852f5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-10-24 21:21:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 11dfc8cf3152d4931376050342c48b80 SHA-1: 29876156668585364b9bcf4d4e215089b83e16f4 SHA-256: 6a076660ba852f5bb8410975fcd92c048c60ea790825f62f325911ad4e5f4c45
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and point to a redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm designed to funnel users through malicious infrastructure, likely for SEO poisoning or to deliver further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure are strong indicators of malicious intent.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/strik?keyword=aulas+de+desenvolvimento+vale+do+amanhecer In PDF document text
    • https://wobafedufuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012960/jesegimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinonomobeberex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318871/fifusimajuwev-rebagevidibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veforolafumokiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340642/kigidanipenapadezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365539/normal_5f916141e06ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404980/normal_5f937d7bda16a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365657/normal_5f87f7ed3fd17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386618/normal_5f8ec281841c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kixatefibav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776592/bibotizorijawupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takijotirodone.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637658/nazuvo-wuded-dukizemitepibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puzemebakojufem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234574/d4bf0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paripipedaninez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134444050/9733518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fijojonibiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681787/4106527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367277/normal_5f882921c765c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370744/normal_5f88bead16cd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0496/0157/7127/files/commercial_manager_job_description.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0498/2626/7291/files/best_task_manager_for_android_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/7837/8165/files/whirlpool_super_capacity_465_error_code_f5e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0496/7130/7423/files/19871059841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9938/1159/files/potassium_oxide_electron_dot_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kisimujuk/anesthesia_drugs_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xefejevife/65319583752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tetazino/annotate_protected.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wexukufedepim/public_administration_in_canada_2nd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gupuso/exercices_adjectifs_et_pronoms_possessifs_franais.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_off00007409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7409 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 41274cf4a79dd5b61c1efb801813e6324e7dc2679ad8b76b0b1c4bd771020ed3
font_01_sfnt_off000085ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85AB 12188 bytes
SHA-256: b4f0d1ebfa45e768e5366a312c1fbe0a5a25577fbab0c987eae591dc7d27741f