Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ba03ab97948aefb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.8 KB Created: 2020-10-04 20:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 808d7c53578224eeeff650b770b5fa48 SHA-1: 1a1655b74ba180122e6d875e02a508d32c7e4449 SHA-256: 7ba03ab97948aefb7fd6daa18a5236b3523b985b25d9276fedb7b1a1d6808138
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, specifically for containing a large number of external links, some of which point to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body contains a URL that appears to be part of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. The primary purpose seems to be to leverage these links for malicious redirection or to host further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=inconsequential+debates+answers+pathfinder+kingmaker In PDF document text
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    • http://gotukow.santekorwestisland.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738731/6587110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.duluthfinepianos.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683267/8573274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7696ad63-0aab-4979-9111-eaaf25472fb9/kajufanon.pdfIn PDF document text
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