Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aecdc7a8b3845cd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-10-26 17:25:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8ead3295c606ce69c02b6a5782004c51 SHA-1: e7a3da4e664536393f77ad361bc9fb8c0bc5e3b3 SHA-256: aecdc7a8b3845cd11de9b3c6cbd39774b3a1f73e4a6f874880305b9688b63249
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body is obfuscated but appears to contain keywords related to a product, likely as a lure. The presence of a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for malicious redirector links indicates a phishing or scam attempt designed to lead users to malicious sites.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.me/123?keyword=bosch+tassimo+suny+coffee+machine+instructions In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403140/normal_5f9650fe74fd8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393503/normal_5f8f86038695f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374859/normal_5f8ac69d4b002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374852/normal_5f8bf40fc504a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuguzozivef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739994/d432e1edef6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ranerenonosojib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483420/1132172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kixatefibav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776592/4877804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubupukadumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382740/kuliragefibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiwenozagor.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134363395/1911820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380072/normal_5f919b7cab6a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380068/normal_5f96bbe36ecf7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375894/normal_5f8c68ff35000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379379/normal_5f90117fa8b25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377379/normal_5f8f016799731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/4778/3077/files/rejodazawiwilapaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9121/3990/files/mc_jain_quantum_mechanics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0502/1030/8271/files/oxford_solutions_elementary_testy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9628/6119/files/nissan_frontier_manual_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0491/7542/9286/files/material_design_tablayout_example_in_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/5484/5082/files/nexaxugasugulimomewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/9119/2728/files/acr_contrast_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b5dc932-53ed-4ba9-bc82-e3669dc0f966/wabamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cc6a808d-689c-409d-bada-f6e874e9341b/nokawevumukamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/66cf3795-af3b-464a-98b4-543f52d41653/vapulaz.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_off00006b74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B74 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 04ae2705f817e2a8f32aa09ba25b4300010503b19c0a555564e32507cd6e0780
font_01_sfnt_off00007d27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D27 9976 bytes
SHA-256: 356c52209f15ca8b64ac24e21c428fb4ae40ff78073740e5edf90c598d360187