Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f7d7334d3e48039…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.4 KB Created: 2020-10-16 08:41:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: b18497d2bbf558dac2c79777cfbf9bfd SHA-1: 3ff9228df837a5f57d6f1f2f8ff6ffa3c9d957e2 SHA-256: 7f7d7334d3e480395e48fa92da1afc50cde89a3e70a244b5fbd1c4080c00c319
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or used for link farming. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are also present in the heuristics and IOCs, suggesting a coordinated effort to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://ggtraff.ru/123?keyword=android+isometric+game+tutorial In PDF document text
    • https://xebikazogede.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740990/1881410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vekejuritikoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857631/venemawuj-noxaropuneze-nabadebotisi-susetidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vekejuritikoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857631/vuregurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gusumadanu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695601/8160409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367005/normal_5f873fc97712a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365655/normal_5f874ed5cf096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368228/normal_5f8762c61440a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368732/normal_5f878cc5b5747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faworufobideped.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682851/gizoredonikojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tugajepefur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453805/fogexa_tileroxobemoji_samedirunezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dojulukasinu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776790/4499251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virataxutepubom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874282/tetojijofosovarofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365555/normal_5f8728b3cd896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368218/normal_5f880d32815e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366365/normal_5f873b6b21640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374976/normal_5f8918afa9325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366027/normal_5f86f97fec65f.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/1/0481/6656/8087/files/35439354207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0486/0972/2536/files/psychodynamic_theory_of_personality_development.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2040/9256/files/maternal_child_nursing_mckinney.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/8592/5014/files/3712180605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/7663/9651/files/59484382793.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_off0000b94b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB94B 5248 bytes
SHA-256: b4a896f4c84a5c0bbb376d0ef9e82371d7fd8cb37bd5f1669e73dff17403431a
font_01_sfnt_off0000caff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAFF 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 173cd99c35221ea30a3ebad177496cd327a5d1429e361f8879724cb1110da1c3