Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a40ddf14a4d9c5e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-10-16 03:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: ee5cf7315bbcb0769aa92d67d706e1fe SHA-1: 6c1f068016b3224224fe4e810e2542626c0b753b SHA-256: a40ddf14a4d9c5e4879229a8a1359b17ea9028d8fb6bd75e2c8fc0f9dbe37d57
132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically a URL designed to distribute malware disguised as a WhatsApp download. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to distribute a payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF files, reinforcing the lure.

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/pify?keyword=whatsapp+download+android+4.4+4 In PDF document text
    • https://site-1039270.mozfiles.com/files/1039270/dopevetivusidomulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036981.mozfiles.com/files/1036981/vaxevukazoduzewegaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038851.mozfiles.com/files/1038851/77949038142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038548.mozfiles.com/files/1038548/83035534140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042282.mozfiles.com/files/1042282/juxipisatozekatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040879.mozfiles.com/files/1040879/purox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042453.mozfiles.com/files/1042453/lasoxudexipekufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1048457.mozfiles.com/files/1048457/mukororib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037860.mozfiles.com/files/1037860/samuvirifowitup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040038.mozfiles.com/files/1040038/zipababino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036721.mozfiles.com/files/1036721/gimit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039840.mozfiles.com/files/1039840/nesibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043770.mozfiles.com/files/1043770/wipisiguxedoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042920.mozfiles.com/files/1042920/bolokotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ridolagu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775195/e09811dcb321b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimaxafazeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453031/8767144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368964/normal_5f8826126a92c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368742/normal_5f87c109dd976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371014/normal_5f88d480c7568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366400/normal_5f877a7ecaa23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368488/normal_5f877365ea761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1048222.mozfiles.com/files/1048222/22545261879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042886.mozfiles.com/files/1042886/cidade_de_deus_santo_agostinho_livro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1044240.mozfiles.com/files/1044240/forubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043620.mozfiles.com/files/1043620/jevorofajusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off00006cc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CC3 5272 bytes
SHA-256: de47d5a01d14f1277b546d07d5e14f958581f0ff04d369312d3d7bd0d6ce13b9
font_01_sfnt_off00007ec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EC0 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 68a7c8de09c60c54c68fa8a02dd2d853d995e7202ec5bb5a00fa1cc4ceb61ade