Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72459da4c8132495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-10-28 15:23:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: af126195d2c2681c793b4fe939ce05cd SHA-1: 99e9beb4cf92ae779fe7cf653f6d51517178dddf SHA-256: 72459da4c8132495c2da56322ff4f2cf7fc473cea7b232a2610171b77df8159e
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting and appear to be part of a link farm designed to distribute cracked software. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ggtraff.ru/aws?keyword=vegas+pro+16+crack+32+bit', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body also contains this URL, suggesting a direct lure to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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?keyword=vegas+pro+16+crack+32+bit In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418192/normal_5f98d14357c7d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vimefipivarek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310944/jipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wetuxabo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873937/8e760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubupukadumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382740/mifakosawafisadipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tubenuluni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437864/newobamolomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kesamitowusiniw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134441112/gosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391009/normal_5f94690adcad0.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/c399d797-9437-460f-87cd-1512a04900e9/39082653082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/491a2be7-415f-4750-8981-b614f4475f3c/xipovosunapadije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2572119b-15bb-41b7-ad9d-6bea6612c67f/apert_solve_for_p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lanowilovuviwib/carbon_disulfide_lewis_structure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3911fd2-abc3-4a18-b7b8-a143060edd99/61218619123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/3499/9446/files/size_guide_for_bikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bbda0dd7-9da1-4a04-ae69-5dd126323abe/pugirana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuxadol/kajaria_tiles_rate_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zetare/98390351295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d4ca8faf-9ef1-4766-9f94-b6c19f946f2e/the_sims_mod_apk_obb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bikikanafopavu/aptitude_and_reasoning_tricks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/53b771eb-6052-41ea-9cfd-fd77b94a21c1/6330652794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1e00a1cf-83cf-44e3-829d-628e35bff101/calciu_carbonic_diaree.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jukoxisojow/gre_verbal_practice_test_with_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0502/7181/3824/files/ampicilina_sulbactam_en_el_embarazo.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6731 5740 bytes
SHA-256: c704da5cf342b85db11fa84297d8e26106b42bbd4a5b749475699c6e5e25297e
font_01_sfnt_off00007adb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ADB 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 9d469395e0a7c1d36729081f552be17515c9597466506b183cf5c1d5d4ecd700
font_02_sfnt_off00009f28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F28 16096 bytes
SHA-256: fadbcb98d8f1d62e9813a7609f5fb4a164c0f07ae0437f2e84255f631a10dc0d