Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82b4546db05dc9ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2020-10-26 12:58:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cd451dbffc43a65306e7a04c62b81926 SHA-1: b5a52c44424fa4ee0e942a957e35b17381daa950 SHA-256: 82b4546db05dc9ac12f88d4780da82991be87e6c8a90afb5a7336cee8e567fb4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'cctraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading a malicious file. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify and Strikingly, indicates a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/aws?keyword=applied+science+pdf+download
    • https://duririsi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096382/togan.pdf
    • https://turomanusogagi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453559/gumededilewe.pdf
    • https://nedudefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134389218/9730104.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0476/6747/8694/files/knights_of_columbus_bingo_phone_number.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8373/files/77762478893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/6161/5003/files/68714635719.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/1688/6678/files/proteinas_vegetales_texturizadas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/2889/6674/files/lejuwisi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4614f31b-0ea3-4059-8ac0-c51daa45d0a5/jotofogemaxevugo.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c1db2601-252c-4be9-a541-50e3fb0d79cd/rawezewabebutugep.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3c600021-dfc6-41ba-a51a-9c006ac30639/naruto_ultimate_ninja_heroes_1_ppsspp.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/732fc8a5-9205-4842-89a2-00e56766092a/3011151590.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56d81558-23e5-4554-a15c-d71b104b24dd/78748082800.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zaxawetawupo/letters_and_sounds_phase_3.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jukoxisojow/pdf_to_word_converter_software_in_filehippo.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tetazino/likegon.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/385ec974-ebbe-497b-ad80-7d9092b836f1/15102624276.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f803017d-e852-4891-a068-c3e510c7a783/52629955475.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/452b268a-e345-4360-bdde-9bebecc14b7a/konixuxujugob.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/baba89a4-acf5-4c9d-9595-b51c877ffe3b/66345466366.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5417/7185/files/poruwatubevakedinoxipefew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0486/0398/8128/files/23799485533.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0502/1535/4543/files/69711431870.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4378/1788/files/jefferson_medical_school_tuition.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd62.bin
766e8903f0b8c3242cfbba17192c890b8ffeb57ccb70874ee0d5c18c90570c13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD62 5136 bytes