Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b870eb622bb04b38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-10-14 21:30:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 55118f228f385ec57112d1abd5f2bc35 SHA-1: eb55745a6c2306501e5e7e3ed85f2200a95d180d SHA-256: b870eb622bb04b38d0328188e550c6cedfe1ea87de0442a2cf70ea52f38b784c
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the embedded URLs, https://ggtraff.ru/pify?keyword=ways+of+improving+memory+pdf, is identified as a known malicious redirector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the overall structure point towards a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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/pify?keyword=ways+of+improving+memory+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://walijogopabo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776167/titilegovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidunaxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437100/sixatuzatena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuzevarezevarot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740461/sumaxika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xojisige.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637148/1441719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gevafitasib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380901/a7b88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guwomenod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873843/kedoxezezaj-temolej-zunemalavorun-mutelokowomimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuxozajuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379873/rugatu-rugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366041/normal_5f872294c7cac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366965/normal_5f87394e2bbcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366042/normal_5f87077d50289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366662/normal_5f872727e383a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366637/normal_5f8735d4c8835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039684.mozfiles.com/files/1039684/44687494887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038460.mozfiles.com/files/1038460/maromagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042548.mozfiles.com/files/1042548/48115570208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1041765.mozfiles.com/files/1041765/laselerudar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043377.mozfiles.com/files/1043377/kamitiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wepugimi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070973/3873212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewemekekebaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406535/8f9093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vevejeda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776099/9009541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0498/0218/2809/files/iphone_11_launcher_apk_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2687/3509/files/7969628613.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_off00006c0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C0A 5504 bytes
SHA-256: a5aca69eb5741ea70850d577a9c763169bbe0d2b955d0ad5c28465b51c345e38
font_01_sfnt_off00007ec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EC5 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 074b85b25287dccedc576abe2ab0fc38c5d725b82173c50d8725e629ee48c255