Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 937a808ae274d677…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.6 KB Created: 2020-10-14 18:15:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: d22e3637dd9a721c9fbdd26db39b1cdd SHA-1: 7e03267a9c2d7443a8251ec2f7df49e573912682 SHA-256: 937a808ae274d677e9ee83878dcdbfce8e53c0002640c0e7be54bd525e01d010
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF files hosted across various domains, many of which appear to be disposable. One critical heuristic indicates that a link points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics suggest a malicious intent, likely related to SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content via the linked PDFs.

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://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=mastering+emacs+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366313/normal_5f87101056bab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366000/normal_5f870d91c65d8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365525/normal_5f870c56ab2a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutitujazekap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814390/nidisetati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fijojonibiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681787/vifotatilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xojerajap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384359/mezevoxinokimuwamibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xojerajap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384359/1392291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1044503.mozfiles.com/files/1044503/4573169894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037282.mozfiles.com/files/1037282/polinedoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039270.mozfiles.com/files/1039270/27904347225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042271.mozfiles.com/files/1042271/43920474902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039779.mozfiles.com/files/1039779/45589674197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043459.mozfiles.com/files/1043459/nogalifasegibenafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042941.mozfiles.com/files/1042941/11408289931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1041169.mozfiles.com/files/1041169/86574662568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042625.mozfiles.com/files/1042625/28238386857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040143.mozfiles.com/files/1040143/gutimutagebutajesiwonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365639/normal_5f8705c80543d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366007/normal_5f87051811a02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366321/normal_5f870e336111d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuxozajuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379873/vunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogilifus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739831/5401885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genigudepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070712/vovofofaverun_sawivurovoj_nifawubazox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fijojonibiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681787/bupemigimamuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genigudepa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070712/bagatazojiz_sidatasofugugor_sofaxazute_gureluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000aa3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA3A 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 122c153f5fa7bdab4a441b811f9e9fc9380c239f907c8932b0b3989858b22d66
font_01_sfnt_off0000bd5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD5F 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 873b9030f21b082a769f993b4e27543497915269694cd574e2ed19e27a53b3d2