Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ace990781db5b523…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-10-27 07:50:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 562bf96b8d89f03f11a1ac8b8959528f SHA-1: e07e5476f12ea0073f7a8b6429c95c686cfad8d3 SHA-256: ace990781db5b523db3aa3c7a981e7877c60c92fcb0624f50aea298fc8872ac4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a redirector URL, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to marathon training and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on S3, indicates a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://ttraff.club/123?keyword=furman+first+half+marathon+training In PDF document text
    • https://xebikazogede.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740990/271339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riragojefo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857115/d71bbb97a352e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://junafoxotoroj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738975/96827f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372354/normal_5f88f39e0fe4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373992/normal_5f88ec193f11d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414353/normal_5f961d46954c5.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/kavitokolezub/fotuliwoxudavisetowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kavitokolezub/entrepreneurship_grade_9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/temujonuwu/lorivowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gelawiweza/famavolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xanebavifamopez/15908563418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tutapaxi/chaos_walking_book_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wixamupelinere/types_of_cash_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/subud/gutajurosemisixoxavofaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/5301/3928/files/tetukikukib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0476/8084/8038/files/17509684282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/7297/3728/files/pomugavenepareba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8220/files/assembler_jpeg_en_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0494/9537/6031/files/arabian_horse_rdr2_not_spawning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/buxoparadazegu/building_construction_book_by_mckay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jamokaroxoj/92087158478.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_off00007bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BDF 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 827b17a44205d0217191d19f7418f29cb7ecf9206c07f29493921160e59cf6d1
font_01_sfnt_off00008d2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D2B 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 027fdbd622c74c788725ac4e78cbb30c9fabb3a572e03dc078d019537c195750