Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c646d41a58c4a5fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-11-06 18:53:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b06ab6f46c9edac264d25d3123b4dbdb SHA-1: 15860012a2ba2be4125fe537c6bf4802bf99f348 SHA-256: c646d41a58c4a5facbcbafb385032c38c08bc8ad45fa55a3387823cd9f7920c3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a large number of embedded URLs. One URL, 'https://cctraff.ru/aws?keyword=the+butcher+block+restaurant+nj', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The document also functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on platforms like Weebly and Strikingly, suggesting a coordinated effort for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. The presence of these links and the ML classification strongly indicate a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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/aws?keyword=the+butcher+block+restaurant+nj
    • https://wipaluxeko.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134346688/793137.pdf
    • https://gekilatati.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134378061/ff97d713a.pdf
    • https://tibiwurab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695994/7371f1.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368487/normal_5f87a2819c596.pdf
    • https://sizukejagu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681884/mojimali.pdf
    • https://bitekiparoduj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017536/vasoxedozakese_vedanuzurilo_kuporit_xidub.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384159/normal_5f9b5af196e1a.pdf
    • https://dewasujule.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134340999/5038576.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/441e88ba-887a-479d-aca7-6545e7906739/repupuje.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4bbb8ae-e459-4e4c-b031-dda5f17a3815/adjectives_that_start_with_q_to_describe_a_person_positively.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006191.bin
027bbbfa08861c42b5bd816f35fffb074afed81894d33832f1b1cc5deedcaa39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6191 5116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072ef.bin
6db8f66f163c1fcd4851217700fd956e168457dbc4e8de3203f83a3da8e6b8bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72EF 11200 bytes