Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b41412ff4fb216f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-10-16 05:33:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: d774194dfcc9bed5386c9f07e4baefd5 SHA-1: af5a32a06ee3bd301dcfb12ab7bf96246e6c0c36 SHA-256: b41412ff4fb216f28e8ca9fb8d3e2ac23a4e653eb71f9739c67b8078c2ee041e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to educational material and URLs, reinforcing the lure.

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://gettraff.ru/wb?keyword=ileti%C5%9Fim%20bilimine%20giri%C5%9F%20ders%20notlar%C4%B1 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365589/normal_5f8722621f455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366324/normal_5f870e97d1cbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367305/normal_5f876336ee649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366400/normal_5f8742345a5e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366018/normal_5f88bea2c44d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366660/normal_5f8753f52eab8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365636/normal_5f86f897924ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368996/normal_5f888a986ee1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misutinulil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407711/vewezesavitize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fifowekuvepu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776735/a7425524e7a53f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366969/normal_5f8748e732228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4370264/normal_5f88d97118629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoveponezewuda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738822/3909426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabidodavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408103/5790791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migirebunimalab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383914/navojugogefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fagisidide.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682833/8703842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viweposedijul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070314/17563d38f77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/97dcb523-91f1-4d2d-a6a5-e83117a22365/14871868720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/89fb5428-acea-46de-a75b-75f427ad804e/mabelavibisurenatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0088ec8c-16c2-4521-b6f6-2c1d651f38e2/zinogavovopulawosidavosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/81df16cb-d875-4b20-80eb-14476109b8f8/88197295472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/79932df5-b5ba-4056-bca0-2d88cb6f3093/5504425577.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007b66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B66 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 7145150dd4ec01aa24da75692db6374c18b84b6da8e94386068830bb2474fcc2
font_01_sfnt_off00008cb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CB8 12144 bytes
SHA-256: 8147b9697c498ce1ecd24de22ecbc3e1c5a65de9a2a3a9081d532df27fcdd007
font_02_sfnt_off0000b240.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB240 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71