Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae02f20ad3f9ef40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-10-28 05:20:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5a5decb21a169acec16dcf8057ece942 SHA-1: e7cb8d2b95fe9afca616e0ad1bd6cb35e6a2573f SHA-256: ae02f20ad3f9ef40a8752122afa781b42b09fd03f9037e9bb64e9691c622d853
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to redirector domains and link farms, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The primary redirector URL is `https://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=respiratory+system+diagram+worksheet+answers`, which is designed to lead users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm suggests an effort to distribute malicious content widely.

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://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=respiratory+system+diagram+worksheet+answers In PDF document text
    • https://numuluga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307024/8239232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vodipewelo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637384/ritelaje-xaxokan-nedanofofupumor-rivibutijika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tupuzenetuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134519332/tajiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vonubaxuted.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452839/2eb1d29d73.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/ea8b5889-c63c-416d-8378-589af3a49096/fukusose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9a21e9bb-3b55-4316-a844-48f4975ef34f/81224219118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2d8e6911-e36b-47a8-b1f2-ce2d48061be7/12526532794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f022dbf3-b077-4a2a-8a73-fc79cf8fbf04/berkeley_physics_course.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bejokazemur/annotate_windows_open_source.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/susopuzupure/17525620750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vatosolikijike/california_achievement_test_practice_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tanikanaw/datasheet_fail._com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/8868/2401/files/verbs_that_start_with_s_in_spanish.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8795/4073/files/android_chat_application_using_php_mysql_github.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/8013/1759/files/no_se_iluda_no_resenha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/9510/6750/files/36585156287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6949/5713/files/77449015110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/5112/9278/files/shortcut_keys_for_after_effects_cs6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0502/1155/3473/files/75000767439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4819/8556/files/tomaka.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_off0000681e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x681E 5604 bytes
SHA-256: 073a78db0ee3d5eca913395adaa098f783d4dc8e9a0a9b2cdddd60cba844d02b
font_01_sfnt_off00007b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B29 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 2221ca13dc5a7c83055ddecab3f59ef593154c3db18e50c1893db6b59e878c46