Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9cff6037dbbff74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.3 KB Created: 2020-10-27 12:41:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: dcefe0f3979e06d9849f452478dcb4cc SHA-1: beeb9d1d6cd0d6ee4b387374caf4f340a7844f7f SHA-256: b9cff6037dbbff74d529b018b1e648f9daf2defaa68f66061550c3d120c07ab6
264 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript T1553.005 Security Software Installation

This PDF document contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. It also includes instructions to disable security software and a lure for a password-protected archive, indicating an attempt to bypass security measures and deliver a payload. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://ttraff.me/123?keyword=step+10+questions In PDF document text
    • https://guwomenod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873843/lanadez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vevejeda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776099/wujumoj-womivuzile-subejivanoge-werowubara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togitarusufojir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681229/f735e99b9d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakedekokobara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381480/zanadutut_wexudafenatogun_jetomefoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norumevi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969469/5e858dd23fda5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vimiwegom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775837/mamizikarisif_favavuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pobasejedewepiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017346/kunuxasadisim-mokesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mubopizolofovo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134442803/5b682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gudatopizesibi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134472507/e00c0c1b1cdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zavamemedu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305249/3681750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wubigunes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134507070/d2dc4868877eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dozasasakebo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164234/nifor-xilimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368475/normal_5f8925ab87f48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366989/normal_5f87a77450c02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375909/normal_5f91ff01a89a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367938/normal_5f87e2e8daf6a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403951/normal_5f97b02ca6013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379606/normal_5f8b99681a360.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/31badaa5-8b87-49f9-9646-6c4f33617581/waxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/877c84db-001b-4773-b8e6-cb3ab84566d6/76124192579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/99b42d19-090f-49c7-9233-448e25491686/the_farm_movie_2018.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_off00008b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B8C 4896 bytes
SHA-256: 28e4cb57ee7ea437af4c052f3f8a5b763a219a5099544b9447f6def787598de6
font_01_sfnt_off00009c53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C53 11600 bytes
SHA-256: 4f403ad5ea826b297ab69bd0f59de32c1d029b1281dd043ff64409bc5018fcc1