Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa49392ca193b502…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-10-15 02:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-13
MD5: c43e3e479c4bb27298b85d030d7d092d SHA-1: 9ca65f9334067a4e6990fc3e4e4078fdf8b19e16 SHA-256: aa49392ca193b5026367d376771baca43da11e51f6cc36b4702b9dabde0b5edd
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=anatomy+of+nervous+system+in+animals+pdf', which is a clear indicator of a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content.

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.
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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/strik?keyword=anatomy+of+nervous+system+in+animals+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366965/normal_5f87382c282b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367627/normal_5f8748dae9d9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365612/normal_5f8724bb4bdb8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367299/normal_5f87878825075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366360/normal_5f8753df8551b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xojerajap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384359/wogiselaruto-nokage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemenudotipetal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695720/fca1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tejigenunonim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813632/gelitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gukepofefefika.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437977/sepupefajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fijojonibiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681787/5058540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366309/normal_5f8726b286879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366337/normal_5f875a2f12d09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365607/normal_5f876dacdcf0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368222/normal_5f877d5a1af6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368767/normal_5f878159a02b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365584/normal_5f8760368f8fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365540/normal_5f8704be7b932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366664/normal_5f873d80955e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038940.mozfiles.com/files/1038940/worenenizobokadikasuwopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038539.mozfiles.com/files/1038539/77128057352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043289.mozfiles.com/files/1043289/95088501630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043689.mozfiles.com/files/1043689/8537812049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040036.mozfiles.com/files/1040036/37434558612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7413/9813/files/ashton_kutcher_brittany_murphy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4533/9814/files/dense_regular_connective_tissue.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_off000069c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69C3 5340 bytes
SHA-256: cbcf8bcb410da1e3f53e174bca79dacc043888e381e383a80868c20fb2297878
font_01_sfnt_off00007be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE1 9976 bytes
SHA-256: 18514626711a18ddfc282ea66960dba573ba30dae3704ac7999d3d3cc1aaf78b