Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac4c5f0f49644e88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-10-29 09:18:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 7504ac98950d243add626ac76fdfb544 SHA-1: 7537903d8fc07a888e1acf3ee2950f397a74c500 SHA-256: ac4c5f0f49644e88d15084d5ec5022fb4e66f20b903a26f93ba8fc08e615f7c5
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One prominent URL, 'https://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=pongo+resume+customer+service', is flagged as malicious. The document's content and structure strongly indicate a phishing or scam lure, likely aiming to direct users to malicious sites or potentially deliver further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • 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) 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/123?keyword=pongo+resume+customer+service In PDF document text
    • https://pejopazuzaguwoz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815183/ee736b022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368762/normal_5f8bdaeb701cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nupejaxisolerez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134348845/f8e8ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386830/normal_5f978d1a5903a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xajoxivanuxus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134432241/92d08739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366627/normal_5f875b277e35f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valoxapemep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305175/308024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porelananov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775759/c2926e035a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369179/normal_5f97999308f6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387050/normal_5f8cc10a844fd.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/188587f6-abb9-4083-a46d-89b5f6c20f3a/98658230823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5602d865-d124-4d90-a64f-feb69e91018e/north_platte_river_wyoming.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/6700/2020/files/mermaid_games_download_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1a9b495-b379-4be9-a781-c10b8680f750/turner_elementary_school_oregon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb932441-8288-418a-a445-40a41d9d9fa8/nobifiwazaxuvugetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nepawigexa/brockton_district_court_payments.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/1075/1126/files/spring_tutorial_javatpoint.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3460/5725/files/82589108271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3503/9656/files/tapafuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/141f0e01-a519-49f3-bf4c-a77e1b9b2f27/65751391729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/felasorarabipis/have_got_body_parts_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/subud/wiwaribokonuropobewujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/7513/4130/files/jijexavokubuzotufobikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jamokaroxoj/benzimidazole_derivatives.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_off000074e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E0 4940 bytes
SHA-256: 45b463fa00f8084b599c42874db54ed1535e2a3e3b91818282ab7f42a311d098
font_01_sfnt_off000085aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85AA 12028 bytes
SHA-256: dadd379dcaf494f929b4afac05751ef34b7ce5820c9a2e50c7ccc9ded2f4cda1