Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b48ce6755089973d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-10-15 15:11:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 0099a8b713ee6123faa3dfc5a587e594 SHA-1: f17b1d8282e9733962b668546a8b58118633f0b1 SHA-256: b48ce6755089973db63b5555250483aa77ab8be1541869ec414827e697126176
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm nature of the PDF is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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/123?keyword=transmission+line+equation+derivation+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jatorogerujew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710569/movew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuxozajuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379873/3257372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawasolasazilem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379174/beparinunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fijojonibiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681787/linurigaruxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mivosubewo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407796/4521844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366662/normal_5f874f0c663d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368219/normal_5f87abd3d75fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365608/normal_5f87954ebd1f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365659/normal_5f871f94183d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366987/normal_5f87338237c87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366366/normal_5f876aff24fb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366308/normal_5f880e640b6b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutitujazekap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814390/nidisetati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojivimimujovo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874437/menedo-fodizelusekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365634/normal_5f880aacb13c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365601/normal_5f872e4dce418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365638/normal_5f882282d3b0b.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/eabeb149-995b-4938-9a59-e2a011f1648b/85528167707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/437bcd31-9c81-4b77-b2e7-506e240db213/kulamazabubemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bfad8765-8f2a-4220-8364-2123390db6d9/xosixukatanu.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_off0000953e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x953E 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 2e3579251a7bf851182dc84924bc50a35b588ee8e096fc51e4e9ddc251325ace
font_01_sfnt_off0000a73d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA73D 11864 bytes
SHA-256: b1cb4ac9ce643be0ac9e9716650109a91b1d4f677af0736fd44a6653071549dd