Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd5ced10400430cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-10-27 09:56:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 947378a03e3b82f5c94ace642d428930 SHA-1: ea7f815e1d7b6df44273263d7239bf35b2f7d6ec SHA-256: bd5ced10400430cc7bc9912a99481931b56f7a9fc2b0e10b79ced5e0ed2cf6d7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with 30 external PDF links, many pointing to S3 buckets and Shopify domains, likely to manipulate search engine results and lure victims. One of these links, https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=two+errors+in+attributions, is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise its true purpose.

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 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=two+errors+in+attributions In PDF document text
    • https://jawowigo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774982/1d32287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xesaranit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696194/9f993c15988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vixeroniwemeful.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740086/1344528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakukavazu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379729/b606eb4667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vonubaxuted.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452839/3030887.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/fojaxexino/48620141724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bisegilupuf/support_vector_machine_kernel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/risisipajole/23962809889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wilugugo/12398032241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/9536/2209/files/3845208398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0486/3161/1560/files/cours_trigonomtrie_2nde.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/7957/4180/files/holley_terminator_x_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0478/1791/6575/files/7223594527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0485/9510/8000/files/69527102793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b15fcdd7-fb96-4161-b92b-55978de0e4df/33344890863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a4884efd-def4-4701-9f20-50ee40f20d92/the_intelligent_investor_first_editi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f50d30c1-e062-4ef3-bb1e-8fe7cbb45c21/32763544611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ca88a5cf-0cff-454d-b655-7bcd374c77f4/sotejufiwawaxiperafubarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2e29801-709d-48d6-85bc-eb41b25f8479/88975833459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9a2ec9b7-3f68-41e3-bb82-d1e1d5fb791f/47532278779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/6186/9214/files/gidajanakaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9737/5388/files/vetalanotule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3663/8369/files/what_is_pcm_carbon_equivalent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/2239/2737/files/nadegezefufumanejanano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0478/3567/6831/files/hangouts_latest_update_apk_download.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_off0000822f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x822F 4828 bytes
SHA-256: 5a71a5b1cd11b9039138dfa96bb594ee5031ed85e7524eec960f99a6a07d4340
font_01_sfnt_off000092bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92BB 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 59a23ce8410d769b22ffbd43d0124f1e2816d152cf3974342475e2a1d5a9a812