Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa97a14445697657…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-10-15 00:58:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 37e4e0989b1a21715be85790e755f7a8 SHA-1: e587bd3b744d31e22c9e430a6ffa0556275219c3 SHA-256: aa97a14445697657ce34c19250e81bc0be773e6fd6c3bb231eb4264a75f09e35
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to the game Hearthstone, but its primary function is to act as a link farm. It directs users to numerous external PDF files, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and ultimately redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=hearthstone+lich+king+guide+paladin In PDF document text
    • https://site-1036819.mozfiles.com/files/1036819/17686748645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039279.mozfiles.com/files/1039279/8798466331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039350.mozfiles.com/files/1039350/58840806635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043937.mozfiles.com/files/1043937/30304012172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1041851.mozfiles.com/files/1041851/79223574916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043262.mozfiles.com/files/1043262/jetewamidexezojetewuxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036637.mozfiles.com/files/1036637/fexotekolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040764.mozfiles.com/files/1040764/jisitugeniguvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039514.mozfiles.com/files/1039514/38070247708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039375.mozfiles.com/files/1039375/jegedupisulosasirerusipir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fulipevaxavu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695351/bopulutijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jatorogerujew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710569/ruxozukozuvazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fijojonibiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681787/kizerapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pevugubak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740457/9734865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/02f89ae5-5039-4620-ad21-43fa6e55ede4/47520146526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c6f8f2eb-8cee-4d1f-b955-5f8b9d6b97f9/zosevawuten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b8b59677-67db-46eb-8e69-3bb93eaca71e/lololovaritozekanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a038917c-15aa-4dbb-962a-5f37645ac7e7/lasinivutegeven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4990bca5-f5ba-499c-9a1b-792f63a10202/14075157061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c5a73bc7-2c0a-4831-a882-18ca12522073/punepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5dd0f935-226b-4116-b9bb-20b0a52cb511/51134333349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b094cd94-6bb0-4768-bc86-db8dc590c3f7/18486803000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f7eea217-2faa-4eee-9909-af0aa4fb9a3b/43003616795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ee2ceee6-3a29-410b-a5b2-bd6c0c88bb9e/29683590156.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_off00008448.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8448 5360 bytes
SHA-256: cc6c78fc62bf775c206f7742d6a1ea307cfe50dfde7431d818e418175c37c29f
font_01_sfnt_off00009675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9675 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 47580b7fadc3389dd23b0b487c2351a716bdfdf0d86e38874c99a98b7b3a91ab