Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e9779277e167dd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-10-25 17:39:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ff84f616d1c41c8e2072404b49a0c6fe SHA-1: 2315472479ceafe89fe003247c4f8cd9fb11583f SHA-256: 9e9779277e167dd063d29b82b7aa2f149bff81be3c8cf339ba1591a70f6ef74a
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. One URL, 'https://ggtraff.ru/aws?keyword=celebrate+recovery+lesson+6+action+pdf', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests a potential for distributing further malicious content or phishing lures.

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/aws?keyword=celebrate+recovery+lesson+6+action+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nikokabiliru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409463/7d45f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xilorufanil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739938/xifizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gudojovevisepu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314990/9863efdaed31640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vimiwegom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775837/e9529680330d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366633/normal_5f875c7ec1518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375909/normal_5f8bb1033a298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368953/normal_5f91915fad687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387433/normal_5f920d3232c60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366339/normal_5f8c0abe1ee98.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bipixexomalexu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134349320/8063634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaxajiwozoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637631/fakavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zirufifun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874679/rotimop-momekuxufibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penulikadima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482887/938070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejolezeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815968/a1d0b0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379837/normal_5f8a7a7e4195a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374198/normal_5f903a5d93b81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368777/normal_5f8c4eedddcc4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381297/normal_5f8ca36a72669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384299/normal_5f91217f131d3.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/tadovu/letexejive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/miwolezedubujoz/zoferedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mozirolinitaje/dubai_metro_map_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wulagisi/ielts_speaking_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jolituzoji/76943086672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/niporofez/apixaban_eliquis_davis.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_off00007763.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7763 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 358b647a126374725b8eb84e1279a79c713afb6087817b62d2b8ab616dc296ed
font_01_sfnt_off00008a27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A27 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 3e25887068131e31636b1f99058981467ffd5a55ed370c66001ca56b534070f4