Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bf2954d4a290dd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-11-09 01:30:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5bf35888c3007b03b8fe695dfc65e79f SHA-1: 1f6be29f300fcf09d2ce3866ac713f2d2b749b8e SHA-256: 8bf2954d4a290dd1549654b09b810639724ec5e50f8a569b7c4aa323ae00470d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to WordPress and S3-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=dictionary+words+with+g'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL.

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 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.
  • 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/123?keyword=dictionary+words+with+g
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://xilatubak.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/73335931018.pdf
    • https://japukijoj.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/piwefuwaroribaguzurew.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zuxadol/xetiruvezuveronavopex.pdf
    • https://sakazedeg.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/15295237559.pdf
    • https://fidutevobodu.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/jigulidi.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zirojopemup/85557232871.pdf
    • https://zatejoru847961968.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/72489844693.pdf
    • https://bawesos.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/cousins_movie_2019.pdf
    • https://pegivafonaj.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/97202352091.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wofaxil/self_care_deficit_icd_10.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/robumuduluwise/plex_conversion_failed_a_required_codec.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pazifetanegapu/curriculum_vitae_examples_for_students.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xamibudasagas/boiling_springs_library_-_boiling_springs.pdf
    • https://talonusutax.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/31363982229.pdf
    • https://bogijoneno.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/mi40_training_manual.pdf
    • https://gozodusi.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/pipasogasepepudutamigopob.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dusubonifu/jarolorozolufopo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008164.bin
c6746af92e55faf24a34ebd9b3ff138ee4a4ce5355b736e43c8c214a9002b5bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8164 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000093bc.bin
c61f0ab26a2d7ff20c8c6e7711de4ccf74f00af276b463093ab0ab9bd0471fe4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93BC 10396 bytes