Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 957859c089fb30c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.9 KB Created: 2020-11-07 06:13:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 33e093e898dd78227b206e75c03a5aff SHA-1: 26b0bc6a0de1c258ab8b9d8ba431fca581c6591d SHA-256: 957859c089fb30c44d4fd5f25d651637c46a07469225d0777728625c433d8de9
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=vhl+central+answer+key+spanish+3`. This URL is flagged as a malicious redirector and is associated with SEO-based phishing lures, suggesting the document is designed to trick users into visiting a harmful site. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=vhl+central+answer+key+spanish+3 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393018/normal_5f91b6be9ccda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384310/normal_5fa3de17dc6b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403683/normal_5f93c539cf79d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409239/normal_5f9f0b7fb7930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371240/normal_5fa0ed3940c2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuxulikiwab/tamu_game_day_parking_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pifakimep.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/fododuxuxinoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wegugus/nikon_n8008s_manual_espaol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/29c25a42-dd77-4a3c-82b6-ed6366bf79d4/78536727364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xuxifuzituwu/kasatelekixivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab246e57-19e1-4d6e-9d13-6471a60057e0/mekajipoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/14a3ca1f-3521-49ae-84da-d99b6e3d0d0c/44167304435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zepifudoxapo/game_rules_of_card_game_go_fish.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivididadese.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/34811542671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/setaxilitozuko/wyoming_medicaid_dme_provider_manual.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_off00008bec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BEC 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 23fcadd0ee28ef88cf06141175cd0283bc84f50e80c62f189846e9789d972cf0
font_01_sfnt_off00009e69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E69 12336 bytes
SHA-256: 08abb118a9739aa1b8989cba0974df90464c5adda39979b4f1e7a266d65ab72d