Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aff90bafc8ea4486…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-10-25 20:17:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a969666589d4e7c8e8da1867ef325720 SHA-1: 8a9c0e171b875a3082f37683555c1544784fa311 SHA-256: aff90bafc8ea4486ec15d11f8ba10c86347708ce1f1f4a3812f30865aa7d67b8
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics and IOCs. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to a network of linked content, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve further malicious payloads.

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://ggtraff.ru/aws?keyword=basic+japanese+english+dictionary+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://munujagafunudo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873736/6894185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenabawik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710661/b2be6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wefamojugibe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164519/daf8cf307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365652/normal_5f894a9d6df56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372735/normal_5f9258e2ef5a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370746/normal_5f898843a08e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373511/normal_5f8981eb452ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369494/normal_5f8805a2b03fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374682/normal_5f89bc4b61028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381978/normal_5f92b63a4c1be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368731/normal_5f912dd980c2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wekubuzebebam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739705/wefufurulatabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaferomesab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134351928/bbe3dbfd2518f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fufivivol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873849/pibileraziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimaxafazeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453031/zakeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393348/normal_5f95b1b43986a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365627/normal_5f87705317a3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366398/normal_5f9108a066358.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/zetare/5348042121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rorives/problem_and_solution_anchor_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tixedujegibex/58032071716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pewebopufupe/personal_statement_example_for_university_application.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_off00006920.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6920 5644 bytes
SHA-256: e8eaa0b9df223dbeb5c42a8b307ef16d1a93c75d0e0e9dcc45f886b19a730d92
font_01_sfnt_off00007c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C4E 10020 bytes
SHA-256: 853ceb7e9e1a1de1c3c1aee59550a12fdb104121f181da20b84aa31c3e4be37a