Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae532adbb48f5b62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-11-07 06:59:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: eeee09687608e4543f1bf482976a7095 SHA-1: b77eb0382cc6f75c02c391ef0ac9fb2f04477d20 SHA-256: ae532adbb48f5b621e936003afb75014214083c30a800592dc3dcc375ff86562
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to a redirector URL. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'Kids guide to the internet 1997', which is likely a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and SEO redirector heuristic indicates an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URIs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://traffnew.ru/aws?keyword=kids+guide+to+the+internet+1997 PDF link annotation
    • https://povutepumik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741486/a3ed947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natizupasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437725/fizosudusozi_virirajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telisawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134466193/920007.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/4d63cf67-0507-4037-99a2-03f0f13c6786/gasamoreweloxoguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b121079-7308-46b9-ba8d-119d2838ff0a/gumimesavujawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c040f3e0-8548-4544-ad00-a1142e491476/mission_view_elementary_school_supply_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6035a103-8135-4b1c-bc60-aaacfc9bc4e7/anatomy_of_a_murder_true_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nopuverig.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/xurirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevosaxovib.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/vuvemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a8371501-e93b-4952-933c-83392324ee35/78868228890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juxabugu.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/pharmaceutical_laboratory_equipment_list.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_off00005f43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F43 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 67bc183c305edf41acadcc91debbef91ae685dffd43d03f23d8cc7ac65abb9a4
font_01_sfnt_off000070ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70AB 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 53f9314e3f454952e1146cf4a8a4aff7f604baefb5886f5a43856e4542b00587