Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ee13190d4c9e082…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-10-27 22:15:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 69f9898495bde90a3085cb0112f327d9 SHA-1: 7af8571eff49c670e45a4e50d87587dc9bd201b1 SHA-256: 8ee13190d4c9e082fc9957a3cdd4ed1b7a433d807b856eeb1d1b362f2e93fd55
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a manual, likely a lure to encourage clicking the malicious links. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the link farm behavior is a common tactic for distributing malware or phishing content.

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=reliance+water+heater+manual In PDF document text
    • https://gelekale.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266195/zufisudisufadomufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarirubawapub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606173/6011874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sijevunima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859613/9408051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keniwuki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483234/mikukinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biwugina.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163984/8129396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavowojavujide.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398322/5858400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gupaxapofigovi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356466/7c30568b8d53b3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://besiwalufeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696214/mawozena-kewanobezure-saxekezato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377902/normal_5f8c460912772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368964/normal_5f87cfde0f3e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380219/normal_5f92566bcbc14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377704/normal_5f983290e22fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408004/normal_5f93d534ac42b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubuzosokiboxof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163723/lunavufakuvusiwugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xojerajap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384359/1392291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vagonegasix.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/1874612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5bbe1a8f-7cfa-422e-93e0-83c5902ca5be/wabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3bf9a174-c30b-48a3-86ac-d3df6886e35e/75939467685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/861c02c2-5e0f-4ef3-80dd-aeae45647431/88429567547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/76d07055-764b-4e1f-b1e5-75d3ea917bcf/dawote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09561624-ae14-429c-b153-fbb6975c0a05/10850462240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8a522fe1-2a10-4710-8866-a4e88fec5788/doxafekenetukogigopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e98fa739-672d-45a8-9444-96557da8ff6b/pofibulokiwikulunesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e3e46919-e774-4154-92c2-817b3691f2c2/dogowasoparutazoganiga.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_off00004ed1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4ED1 4960 bytes
SHA-256: 013ed8c5ea674bb4e4d00544345edbae7ea5ca24b9499e3e801f9a381d0065b3
font_01_sfnt_off00005f8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F8E 8760 bytes
SHA-256: 6f4ee6036e3ba41e1556107bc02563ba545ad3fabd2d6ec6abcebdfcc384de77