Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c95f835a9b89588d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2020-10-27 06:15:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0ffcdb68005e9675077e59437299f102 SHA-1: eb16613042af7ac243f1dd69ee816d9d1981cbb6 SHA-256: c95f835a9b89588de2a306712fb342d45e157391bf7f19e6265b5995afdd645b
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially garbled, suggests a lure related to an "answer key", and the presence of many external PDF links indicates a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=balancing+act+model+1+answer+key In PDF document text
    • https://nofizosol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134500220/cbbf0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mesipaku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383407/lakuz_safubixusepubu_dagaduj_besesarikoximo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekegalesi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740489/gekowibulumudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobinetezo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969761/fapevawoluwojos_ribuz_kixoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gusumadanu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695601/4573418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366018/normal_5f8707c1495b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369784/normal_5f95550f638fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392441/normal_5f8e15e08e32e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366668/normal_5f953f30f0dc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413967/normal_5f967235c9f4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404976/normal_5f9590884d77d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382186/normal_5f8edc0bd932b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366028/normal_5f903e4864539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367005/normal_5f87320ec69da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366980/normal_5f9798df3588d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384649/normal_5f97001a23367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373264/normal_5f8fd7d7a89c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411691/normal_5f9751cba3679.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/felasorarabipis/24250712032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/susopuzupure/fileved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/baxegezivumi/agama_samawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/10bce8a2-ed53-4dfc-83b5-bf4dc95837c3/kofuvulatataladizozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e32b120-7055-4f28-a847-5edf38911fdc/80980095779.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_off0001102b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102B 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 8ef06564c05ca46f87ba45e62943c4a26d058602c60e8e6bf6d016835fd4f588
font_01_sfnt_off0001234a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234A 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 5f0fd8461f276de86970433880ffbb73abda055ac546156ecc324039eff05eb6