Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 add01e96e95145e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2020-11-08 09:15:13 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 5a363be23297987cb14d374253cbabea SHA-1: d00c26625186ff16107cb8884e7082dcd5612db9 SHA-256: add01e96e95145e679b913efe0b2c6ed5dbcf28d7dbf666a2e1dd30f0dd0f886
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified as a "link farm" by heuristics. One of the embedded URLs, https://trafftec.ru/123?keyword=what+is+depository+name, suggests a potential SEO manipulation or phishing lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded links point towards a distribution or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafftec.ru/123?keyword=what+is+depository+name PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418557/normal_5fa52de13f91d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melegejisud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379421/7354112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerezuwiwufuken.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134355676/badisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gobumireg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383916/5984895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378830/normal_5fa1b713e760f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://raxibob.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/reactivity_series_worksheet_ks4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/safago/paper_mario_64_rom_emuparadise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sepawi/62661618432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rezekine.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/tatojesanawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/betimugi/79504590049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirosagumeta.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/48729136818.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 10

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_010_off0000d950.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xD950 21732 bytes
SHA-256: ed76c65b1b173cba8fd1b4e09ce233abc94e68747e0b4c2d34258e1588868d89
font_00_sfnt_off00005ea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EA1 4560 bytes
SHA-256: 720aa341888c9a1f4d9a5cc54c5056d3d394a035a443f86d6ebffccfee01c908
font_01_sfnt_off00006eb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EB8 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 932c327173fce6890252b2a899834258e91fc2147049d5566c9fd03281b2e430
font_02_sfnt_off00007fcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FCB 2656 bytes
SHA-256: ff8289fcab20b7b81f5dc7c47458689637225d7099c48932a46d6898d6123f6c
font_03_sfnt_off00008ad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AD2 2328 bytes
SHA-256: 18b250f24057ce91e4a59b25c1eec79fa8b4d7e2cb9f6c0de02c7e032a072fd4
font_04_sfnt_off00009587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9587 2108 bytes
SHA-256: 5fc9e2cd4e7ad04544edda2023dd698132b65daf167a61e09de9fd8de66d8b52
font_05_sfnt_off00009f52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F52 6244 bytes
SHA-256: aa27ff5f55262cfa566fa9394baad46dc5c31bf2191e33a98eef31acc5d2fa9e
font_06_sfnt_off0000af8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF8A 12728 bytes
SHA-256: 80c7ff913dedfa5714f5e9f379f32718c810d80ad1aa418e43b58bfe8976eba5
font_08_sfnt_off0000fe9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE9A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
font_09_sfnt_off00010c9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9A 3276 bytes
SHA-256: 36e71c95d3b6602ce175a98ac99a2c18c99235fab0e24c6c46ec4ff9e72f8c94