Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be6ae94d4506ce26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-10-01 01:57:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 5823f76a31f39e9a51902929514b4aad SHA-1: e1022b669a34d40832fcbde3674938af042043b5 SHA-256: be6ae94d4506ce2699156947f897d115bf351cf747ca30c1a475ed713daf340a
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and the initial URL is a known malicious redirector. This indicates the document is designed to lead users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the link farm behavior is clear.

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://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=cooling+tower+maintenance+checklist+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://site-1038700.mozfiles.com/files/1038700/bazom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039472.mozfiles.com/files/1039472/51667213381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037022.mozfiles.com/files/1037022/melegenuretuzujulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036840.mozfiles.com/files/1036840/61069438104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039423.mozfiles.com/files/1039423/99982244967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036981.mozfiles.com/files/1036981/30979474992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037187.mozfiles.com/files/1037187/vunulafakegemelure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036824.mozfiles.com/files/1036824/moropepaxunobizasox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rukupuji.karenrcompton.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873915/8342160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kijopobo.kellymichellebaker.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874679/5673650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lijizo.teamnaomigetwellnow.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606056/9421856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolejow.vinecourtphoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378814/gawuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vabugufe.wordsongs.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/225d5.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/001ee0c6-4349-4771-9523-1f3799970334/21959859052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a0a047aa-5ad9-4852-aa35-f1387951e1ab/42588069073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90c0949d-1336-420a-8720-0d37f962f4d7/gawemazunuwivotagijafawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1525726f-f742-48aa-9116-7f18453bbbd4/pijuzevuretikojefades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2c36cbe-9a3d-4ccc-a84d-36e6ab42004a/dafelerizopaxixufoserifi.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_off00006bac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BAC 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8ae0243a4f5adc75b2b9db2d2d8c409ac542690f7b918232e34fdee08ea9c0
font_01_sfnt_off00007eb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EB5 10008 bytes
SHA-256: b4b8c53a9a521de951263f431746ec1140ab066ee98c8a44dd937b3f8ffc9a3b