Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b21f2c3669f86b6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-10-29 22:32:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1dad33b215539ef5af9094c2fbd439f1 SHA-1: d3e8429a0febde724bee102a93b87720931bfb8e SHA-256: b21f2c3669f86b6c769d6ead1a67a33d733ca372eeca4beab41cb45098ac89c1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms this, pointing to 'https://gettraff.ru/aws?keyword=dr+seuss+poems+cat+in+the+hat'. The presence of numerous external links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely related to SEO spam or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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://gettraff.ru/aws?keyword=dr+seuss+poems+cat+in+the+hat In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413125/normal_5f9632b71c8cd.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/8d6922b0-0812-41bd-be80-54dbc0d3811f/70675306162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/9163/1522/files/manualidades_navideos_con_material_reciclado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/5295/5315/files/legend_of_zelda_majoras_mask_guide_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c83dbcef-24c4-417f-8702-fd023c01c137/85425845624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/0800/2728/files/62296679807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a262efe3-67f0-49e0-aa83-7573d57f873e/visofaronakojaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ccb1c270-d7aa-40ba-a5eb-9f0c9a5eea50/pro_ana_site_officiel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/7488/6043/files/jellicle_cats_lyrics.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_off00007e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E6B 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 466073cbb481acbe4eb50f97f72b309d6da2c55d2eabb51be319c90ef95ee401
font_01_sfnt_off00008fbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FBE 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 25532f2c32bc00732f6957afb25b3faa0498a05792e670cfc674fb26dbd79534