Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1d824de251efffd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

26.0 KB Created: 2020-11-08 00:17:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6750a039cfa2b65cb8c9e87ba8395c86 SHA-1: 0e269bc082ada4330929c4eb47221446229c5bf1 SHA-256: b1d824de251efffdf89cea914a96ecd11f61efd292c5d2178eed0de10c4a6a8f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with many pointing to external PDF files hosted on various platforms. One URL, https://cctraff.ru/aws?keyword=crb+index+data, is flagged as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is likely part of an SEO link farm or a content-spinning operation designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine rankings. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/aws?keyword=crb+index+data
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