Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1b5f7e7bf552058…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-11-06 04:01:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4eb26300d6c0327ef2a43350963da255 SHA-1: 7cf0c48b355f2862bf5366c4679fbf680efe6e45 SHA-256: a1b5f7e7bf55205877a0fa11ea638d5ee3e0e35623b2c9a4ca543ae9698141e1
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. One of the links, https://cctraff.ru/aws?keyword=provisional+diagnosis+in+dsm-5, is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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://cctraff.ru/aws?keyword=provisional+diagnosis+in+dsm-5 In PDF document text
    • https://danawejenig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134499985/41a7ad6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakedekokobara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381480/1d44b872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375702/normal_5f8ea7945df81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371790/normal_5f8ccce37b652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bubiwodepu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815961/2403684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bogadisosupotaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776541/sefetufatovinujakomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jirewolekaza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134387643/voxafiwesivasabawure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rifodomofakape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134627700/pogoleninusun_gomivoputub_wazewizigukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425005/normal_5f97369aa2ecc.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/lunojol/yo_kai_watch_4_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/347f7530-3e68-4161-9c87-db800a6e3b3e/victory_bible_reading_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1fd52ba1-cb46-4550-9d0b-5589da27fa33/getting_the_love_you_want_workbook.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_off00007b11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B11 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 01247c5fcca0aa0c2009f4efad898085fd944af5de84c2b24325040f930737de
font_01_sfnt_off00008d48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D48 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 9e15f6ec5a777efbb17fdfa3fa5814d4a1f52315f4a543175d7b994d0afd332a