Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 801a76f84a0eb45f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.8 KB Created: 2020-11-03 22:43:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 437424eceecf360ad4d85b70edf0846a SHA-1: 46d492f3cc15ff7dbf82affdc83b3767992a8e7a SHA-256: 801a76f84a0eb45f9e4f961f5ce668dc2e74964e223123d303173ca749998643
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and one critical link identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for a "craftsman router crafter manual" and includes the malicious redirector URL. This indicates the document is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to further compromise.

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://ttraff.link/123?keyword=craftsman+router+crafter+manual In PDF document text
    • https://vaxajiwozoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637631/kegule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mesipaku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383407/2cc726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurikosaradusif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384544/1127611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rigitugatelimo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131632/fb21d8584be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wefamojugibe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164519/lotinumedamup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jowojebutoda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134487303/b9fb23f0fc4513f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vemulasi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509822/lovefo_kodarukifaz_fukaru_vekotizeguvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevigetadafuwun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969942/melita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luwobidope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814225/nifika-vorise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finiluxexolije.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856594/9106678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/juzalizuvar/jukamovuvofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luresimosip/1833635028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jaxesabi/semi-acoustic_guitars_for_sale_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/memul/biodata_form_printable.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_off00004c32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C32 4932 bytes
SHA-256: df08a5f591f9ae9f2dcac7ef2b2838be4360c639df99df8ba60623b2a29415c8
font_01_sfnt_off00005cdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CDF 9700 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0c741fd97142df102496c7069b7fa12010597838a0211cee5e0c5f7cfaea30