Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3b1567c14248a80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.7 KB Created: 2020-10-27 10:10:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 47cfe26b74d085a5de6fce3316eafa3e SHA-1: c6588e8fc915f1257cad14054fefad9f946f3ad1 SHA-256: c3b1567c14248a80887fde4993668a61c5e4edb08200e8c9d1a931f9bfcfe58b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains multiple embedded links that redirect to a malicious domain, identified as a redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a "Bissell cleanview swivel rewind pet manual". The presence of numerous links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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.
  • 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://ttraff.club/pify?keyword=bissell+cleanview+swivel+rewind+pet+manual In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409840/normal_5f93efdfb93fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366957/normal_5f8d2f3052642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387430/normal_5f8fe81c99de1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389352/normal_5f8e87949597e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368478/normal_5f8bfbe4bc521.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/e15ec6cf-af34-4edc-b611-07a80832c5c1/91091670306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0fc74687-f75a-45a1-bea2-dd0a24bc6f2b/89762970339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/80d81bb4-14c5-4a87-8961-4865ea26ca80/25672950327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3f996b62-c266-4c01-b466-79b482989f1b/73645785941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/9818/6937/files/wokofidoxuxilolenadarutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0498/9331/0631/files/digital_subtraction_angiography.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b494b5b-8cf4-4727-84ed-0916d2ea8be2/nusigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/253047c0-55d0-4fc5-9ee9-10f2fe28fdcf/46133414915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dfdd3feb-4bc4-4055-9a44-7c91874a1cfb/85174997685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e256688d-5926-4577-8ba4-cceefbefbf60/6087693307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0cb729cf-a882-46bf-a00e-05c4fd832224/63890706963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3876/1109/files/square_numbers_worksheet_5th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/0746/6398/files/11320825612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/potofaw/50491884700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sevoga/28959790369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xarojapi/todolejaruge.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000741a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x741A 5420 bytes
SHA-256: d3d27c4c5c918c04d75965848a94a647672631519185ed7eb0abfc0211c507ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000867d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x867D 10992 bytes
SHA-256: bfb1afd60f64e269c28124b79312ad2d3ae437a51ca7fa5064c881175d629c7d
font_02_sfnt_off0000abf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xABF8 16224 bytes
SHA-256: 3230dce6ac9cc1c618afe6e700bc01bad4c14b8490cb7e773368fe91bfaf5e97