Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9f67cd0bff5b9ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.2 KB Created: 2020-11-05 19:11:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3fbb1048fff7615ce8664c2e52924c16 SHA-1: 8190ab211ab02f9840a6bec1767b814eea38a7bd SHA-256: b9f67cd0bff5b9adedc052f8e94e6227a0df560e93b23e50d6d9b60f15484887
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and brand impersonation, specifically targeting Facebook. It embeds numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, and another to a Weebly subdomain that likely hosts a phishing page. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm designed to appear as legitimate content, such as 'separable differential equations worksheet'. This suggests an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content or submitting credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure critical SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: action link to abused redirector https://titawijuneve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012454/kafebe.pdf.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://traffine.ru/aws?keyword=separable+differential+equations+worksheet In PDF document text
    • https://titawijuneve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012454/kafebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366014/normal_5f91f505dab66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zexivuwesime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356920/fegesiwalon-bamopori-radoxizotu-fujukeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381541/normal_5f9ee5dac5cea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zewuxufasebi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320084/2856823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bokofapig/mp3_player_amplifier_speakers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44194431-019b-4c7a-89f7-df47b8bed78d/polelexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d3f9c4d7-f294-43b0-b0e4-eb9b5ff4a9be/31959443896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nakevoja/watch_law_and_order_svu_putlocker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/70c17b16-22c4-4682-91fc-be8879d7fee9/namisidesudako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7f28700-922b-4d7c-9602-73942db48180/je_te_veux_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/937affe2-3b6d-4211-b157-7bbf39f64bac/rapomavamosafedomog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fenatagazise/38045247432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bulolimepol/ultimate_flash_sonic_games_online.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_off0000448b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x448B 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 4c40eb6ed37bdd1631b4e5c5bab1a7899ab25e0ea0c9ab9ccf825e8ade59cb90
font_01_sfnt_off000057ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57CA 9428 bytes
SHA-256: e8b984c99506e8b61aebc332202f27e62238d9aa8921776f2df0562a128987f5