Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fe15fd83dd0e034…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-10-28 15:43:49 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 5de58f578e4759112a1f4ab1d560a998 SHA-1: 26321668e4aa96f52cec2fb0dc369d2a72bda123 SHA-256: 7fe15fd83dd0e0349209107b44686bc5728b374d14855d5bfd74e7c078caf1ac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure designed to lead users to malicious websites. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains URLs that are part of this link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristics confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://gettraff.ru/aws?keyword=arvada+west+hs+baseball In PDF document text
    • https://zafigitelerom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134338481/vipivulugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368951/normal_5f8d298dcb829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejolezeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815968/dosotuxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vafumigoku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384305/d9de2d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megadezatesaram.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776649/6281772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381294/normal_5f9368dac5757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuwuperozaposa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303395/numorevezisewuva.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/1/0436/5382/4677/files/18020071897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mijedusovineti/diwonirawanolibuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/6705/5521/files/79111617305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/3179/7149/files/toto_washlet_g400_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wonoti/zinedatagufipetiwakinaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tetazino/59567407407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd2e7a95-0fac-435e-afef-11dd5851e85b/53852316565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mejigavukolu/cost_accounting_notes_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0491/7094/0070/files/doctrine_of_constructive_notice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/busutafitufe/behavioural_approach_to_learning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rimepusox/suxunosebawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/felasorarabipis/83433449070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e91adae-2077-47de-8a2f-bfe0f8d4325d/numudematupomuzetiwixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/felasorarabipis/zewesiwubalejisej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dinisemowoge/columbia_county_dashboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/4030/4025/files/viwanuvizajugegixazikas.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_off00006b16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B16 5192 bytes
SHA-256: aaa82c1f4978edbad776d8c8c789bf40085eaa9910385e4b20f1926c1cdf36a9
font_01_sfnt_off00007ccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CCD 11388 bytes
SHA-256: d91b922b81c97a0cc63585ebefcd4b398061bb701342eeae999ed543d37225d5
font_02_sfnt_off0000a40e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA40E 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd