Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c09e1349f291a4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.8 KB Created: 2020-10-03 01:36:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 7f31271ea127740a836f4f50f12c9308 SHA-1: 8dd0e725c93afc193cf02403274146e73b7728c8 SHA-256: 7c09e1349f291a4b2c5ddbb0f78453b2ca0b86154ca5e0da8b280bfd5a949f39
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs. Several heuristics indicate malicious intent, including links to known redirector infrastructure and a viral-video clickbait lure. The document body contains references to 'keystrokesmod 1.8.9 download', suggesting a potential attempt to lure users into downloading malware. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and link farm structure are strong indicators of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.
  • Viral-video clickbait PDF links to suspicious host critical SE_VIRAL_VIDEO_CLICKBAIT_LINK
    Document uses viral/leaked-video lure text and links to a suspicious disposable-looking web host. This is a clickbait/traffic-scam carrier shape rather than a benign PDF link.
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=keystrokesmod+1.8.9+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.sweptpath.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815855/c7d433d2051f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatisexat.lovelaughterandreallife.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776131/9920680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xugirax.drjuliannavalearningacademy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775379/2839719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vebezi.bewisecomputer.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710497/7c2a974578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dojan.icuesociety.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775181/dec3cc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.erinmerryn.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776130/lekabitotudok_kozopaseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.helenmoorhouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453354/131a0dcac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasab.ca-radio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873872/533200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038750.mozfiles.com/files/1038750/zuworazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036625.mozfiles.com/files/1036625/17824707899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036884.mozfiles.com/files/1036884/28044220290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036880.mozfiles.com/files/1036880/sekemirelalulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dojan.icuIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off00006e18.bin)
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off00006e18.bin)
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0477/5765/6220/files/kasakimafuzaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3426/4231/files/18784636366.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off00005e22.bin)
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off00005e22.bin)
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off00005e22.bin)
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn extracted file (font_01_sfnt_off00006e18.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn extracted file (font_03_sfnt_off0000a40e.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_03_sfnt_off0000a40e.bin)

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E22 6440 bytes
SHA-256: edf517a561ed5132c6c1d5718ac6ff9d870a00e6f43a91762fd168a2279cca75
font_01_sfnt_off00006e18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E18 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 1358b14a7a37787620311aaf022bae9e2a8cb04f2551f3a16fe37e192d58beea
font_02_sfnt_off0000814e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x814E 10100 bytes
SHA-256: a9d06f486f4da8001165f17c0a88fd597bce14f7067f6873a22ffc024bd220b6
font_03_sfnt_off0000a40e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA40E 16260 bytes
SHA-256: 6e9feb12fbe83c7e6c9005551c7e22a39d314a092a722aff7ee982cee5630e01