Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80c0d67333c31577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-11-01 22:12:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 561c47cfd80c3a0b8404dee3bb31ec42 SHA-1: ec11dca8ff65ff0cbbde87a3662bd0455a0edfb6 SHA-256: 80c0d67333c315778b73571eeee8771c07973d16558f726b11c496a69b4529b9
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though obfuscated, contains a URL that mirrors the malicious redirector's pattern. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is a link farm on disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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 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/aws?keyword=ender+s+game+book+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • https://tenasusuboziwid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134349012/puxoso-lofetavevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najuxobetejip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265875/favigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terarawuterojuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739827/0cf34fb3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worozimovazez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406108/2061882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tijikazi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134373218/2792479.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/xamapebonijos/persepolis_1_francais.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/1779/6247/files/98163690995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8029/4298/files/5137908430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06c513ad-ebd8-4acd-900e-4c9c1f40df03/gigabyte_b450_aorus_m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/podawakumepewez/juegos_de_barcos_para_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/8880/0661/files/wilderness_medicine_paul_auerbach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuxulikiwab/tigedolawakinefazokil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/6135/3889/files/acids_bases_and_salts_cloze_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xunilukegez/best_data_structures_and_algorithms_book.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_off000073c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73C1 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 037c87f2b1082ed0271c73dd27e9b11272d522bb0c01fa4a936b2c1d9fd56a80
font_01_sfnt_off0000865a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x865A 10472 bytes
SHA-256: e5dc0249b702bebf0f67e2ae1e2693c6900ef5867b5852aa6c04547780ebf905