Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98a4e8ff7644906b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-10-27 01:13:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c26f6167851cbbc846cb682a9350a2e0 SHA-1: 52ea9a6a2ee2579fdf6b9d3cc56054d1d5b2e048 SHA-256: 98a4e8ff7644906be9f6b9e40923fd95eabc34b82aad17d846a1e89eef4fbafd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying one as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector identified by heuristics. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=noaa+nws+aviation+turbulence
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374700/normal_5f92b5e9e8f7c.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382784/normal_5f93c9841262d.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365599/normal_5f97478ff3840.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366041/normal_5f86fcc09576c.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365582/normal_5f874f52a7a94.pdf
    • https://pezujotage.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134318684/kunabodebe.pdf
    • https://rofexigu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738805/5acbe9.pdf
    • https://vaxedokumam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266394/4463623.pdf
    • https://riragojefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857115/zamepagamejoxer.pdf
    • https://zadumeredevasax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453870/2580885.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/08b6b461-3a70-4add-8c10-906db27331d6/99598183303.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/15f47111-bc04-472d-8990-141d10c5dc60/37371823526.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/507a3647-cdcf-4ff7-92dc-41addfa131fc/kesirlerde_blme_ilemi_rnekleri.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d6418015-8958-4049-9a1b-a256a865a65f/tikodaxojoreke.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/995bef58-1bc3-40c5-9949-af18ab20b2a2/wufovinibetigefe.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/df849ce3-05b3-4c01-a4d6-8205912c406f/zebigazovijel.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fe3bb30a-7a9c-492c-8a72-60382566323b/8552437512.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6974f6e4-3409-4f10-af0c-67d11cda9491/biology_science_for_life_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f45735d6-4eeb-4944-8e92-1ca722354f5a/44581394313.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000861a.bin
3a631be9142f52d102d39632908278d3f40f97cf7d678dbc832b5661519d28d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x861A 5056 bytes