Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92e105e657cb7cc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-10-25 19:21:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2d2aa71555c2b311ecafbb18ec261660 SHA-1: 9aedb425c9bb82ff117242b550a8a29c0c11bfa7 SHA-256: 92e105e657cb7cc7d5595b8c4aa5ec0c2b6aa3afc8cafe16aacbe28a79c6c20f
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to known malicious redirectors or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically flags a URL leading to a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are also present in the list of extracted URLs, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites under the guise of providing educational materials.

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://cctraff.ru/123?keyword=mathematics+worksheets+for+grade+3+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pesajupamobe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607203/vonefamap_jemov_zajijazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dapujevubo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438680/7931f5a29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuxuzesis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438019/3547807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femevidawivuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071063/risivodebewek-rodobofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383131/normal_5f90729003dfa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368758/normal_5f89a614b6d40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368768/normal_5f88c53c8e2e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366987/normal_5f89f9015bb15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393370/normal_5f92fd2a44ea3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367299/normal_5f8f6d09a0d02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366032/normal_5f871a8ff3a78.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juporolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380745/99d2d4351f6637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejolezeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815968/6821000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowusunomotir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314498/matigefa-saremedepakaxu-sarejujirijevin-wogogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7981b81a-f1ce-49cf-88c7-e8c3593baa47/sibeduzipaluvora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/adacc755-4f65-4aa7-b79f-61d88aa17bbd/peziwisukagaseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/54fa0c46-fabf-4b75-83c9-e58c64d5eb06/sosefaranopejokubiviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b5c6f873-3b26-4060-be28-6faf8dd3338d/how_to_download_a_minecraft_texture_pack_1.14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a8113ca-82f4-42f7-9e65-dfb621d2125b/kofafudolinibif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a4831bd-6c91-4eca-a43c-50b0d8faa0b7/jutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7437bb2-9453-414d-a957-186a8145ac75/green_ronin_advanced_bestiary_download.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000077e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77E2 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 9a46daba30d793ade46f8d5a7b29213f9b57d0ef9468af027c04bd9e797efab5
font_01_sfnt_off00008ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AD8 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 70889760da48fe6c17fcf157bf268a6e678257565a40452981530a5c028a4a20
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE92 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2