Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3c8b8d93f180da5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-11-09 04:24:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 1c32a14e4bb4b656e28bfd23ac52e5cb SHA-1: d24d7ec9d67232968df0dd3628a2ce90609b151c SHA-256: a3c8b8d93f180da55adc4d0d334102d8fa3bfe67d8d749ac83d85876ea7cf761
184 Risk Score
Tags
free-cdn-ebook-manual-lure

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm and routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

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://traffmen.ru/123?keyword=the+originals+book+series+order In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368221/normal_5f87b43d22a6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jexajopox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134656613/19e9c851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fomomeku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712435/00f6ab09f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426547/normal_5fa34cc996a65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lififamofupuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317858/8588194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tusutaxuwipafu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134403355/814abc5e91e052e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaxasonazeg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134375181/a337bfb3257614a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zepifudoxapo/b_boy_blues.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c98142d8-e8e0-461a-8fe2-ac8b2e2f6318/flow_chart_latex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tetofamuxulil/birthday_girl_penelope_douglas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ddbf204-83cd-4ce5-ad1c-5f89322d3d83/jujeginunafujowedivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb775641-a8c2-4bbe-ac41-fcf66bd052d9/97898404847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a01918ea-d52f-4a88-af64-18ae00e385b1/37808251745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dopukomewudu.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/55576741329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lanowilovuviwib/introduction_to_elementary_particle_physics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kisimujuk/sifilivisi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000841c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x841C 4948 bytes
SHA-256: 1f673b2a79c33d1d1c395e28bf06c6e66f322b35daabfc1fac2eedf217da19c9
font_01_sfnt_off000094d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94D3 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 74a578d6a158a0aaba9978c18c5ecb8cc26046a3568e34d5b7ea85e00d2c9945
font_02_sfnt_off0000b992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB992 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c

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