Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb3185610f801857…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.1 KB Created: 2020-10-29 23:30:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 94c5f5be3fd3ef4240235b710d52d259 SHA-1: bcbabc9855bf934e78fc99eee0f58f10394db357 SHA-256: bb3185610f8018573d6818ba3f763954bce773d6e5feb1b4ba0f0026518bad4f
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of a lure to direct users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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 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/aws?keyword=how+to+calculate+era+plus In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367296/normal_5f873dbd84925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sijevunima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859613/6242828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xadaxiwunitari.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814235/443e4d3ec0b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donodofi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856097/aa62166ab6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latenenagizogip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696064/08fd7792bc816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarijarasojud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332778/5152297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425726/normal_5f9b210ee8c49.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/1/0496/2874/1828/files/music_player_software_for_android_mobile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sezebepit/zojupunegejapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/7891/2674/files/outsunny_party_gazebo_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nafibanefexex/39060558185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/8799/4263/files/dizezerof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sazixipame/30148633043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dixaleko/dermatitis_atopik.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_off00004328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4328 4980 bytes
SHA-256: cc8b054cd617a4daec188a4c392f4f3fc822d4d312d15322fcd5d42325467b85
font_01_sfnt_off00005433.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5433 9272 bytes
SHA-256: c3ffee2f8515e856060ae4e67d2cf883413473db325b6e66508fa16554b01e16