Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a46cc1e990ab499b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-11-01 11:04:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 72e82f09a66df65511c6c55d0fea86f7 SHA-1: 9f1ba6de9e607f8a7c423956b8b16ec5f98845cc SHA-256: a46cc1e990ab499b47ad679c171414829b2bbfeb3146574748f50b51778ac3f8
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically disguised as a 'roku com link activate' lure. The document body and heuristics indicate a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/aws?keyword=roku+com+link+activate In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367624/normal_5f937f9dc7dab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365555/normal_5f90829937f65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zurukuwimuso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134325804/41237237d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masogipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606875/8222501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wibugosavuzatug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134349607/846a66cdb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kukuziso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134468315/41da77ebb01507.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/felasorarabipis/30265951062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wilugugo/jineputavejuvabumudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wonoti/biological_anthropology_the_natural_history_of_humankind.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lopadivupudexa/nekawuzirekozefixutovid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/penefelomiju/rigemakumiruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/regovadeje/calendario_julio_2019_colombia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/retisovojor/louisiana_public_records_statute.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A69 4804 bytes
SHA-256: 6fa6b627f7204061accfaa7ac531d1ae34cc372901d35814da0682beb9d0edd6
font_01_sfnt_off00006abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ABD 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 5b67e3531435667c47c62e81dad585fa07e1fbc6e6b7f14b48b2204177a01b94
font_02_sfnt_off00008efd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EFD 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 4b9554522d39f0300fa52a55595e76db765137f766e30e2d5537cf7435e611c9