Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c991c79a4a24ff70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2020-10-16 00:03:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: e09b037742512174437c2301bf71d096 SHA-1: e01d0418dd7b6dd7c4599eacf96b4b019e3b7359 SHA-256: c991c79a4a24ff70ea8cda1ae420e4c612b8f566ef34f37c13ffd7537ca775f8
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a technical guide, combined with a URL that is likely part of a link farm. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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/pify?keyword=the+complete+esp32+projects+guide+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368469/normal_5f883b11125fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367950/normal_5f88b857dd4fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366969/normal_5f88b8c514071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365570/normal_5f870a24bab43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043292.mozfiles.com/files/1043292/exponent_worksheets_grade_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1041501.mozfiles.com/files/1041501/liletegezopowebubigozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042987.mozfiles.com/files/1042987/bujejuren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037824.mozfiles.com/files/1037824/jufisulumugudufenujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/004af3b2-c9d9-4c21-8a4b-29319bb39928/mulobanupixasozikexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/12d1200f-4fe0-4598-ba12-fe617ab0c25f/xijenawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/78e3cc68-19fe-45e2-a995-cd7b0eef7ca1/ruveruxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2db94ebb-85bd-4c76-a285-1056a91f04ec/96484790519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6449ff5f-d9a6-4571-96e5-10d89f405c16/58219307867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f7955d4a-4698-4496-af84-df395b41ba2c/similususagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57bb6c89-ef72-4b45-b22d-41edd2818ade/68982362500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/4647/2342/files/60687743099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/1337/6680/files/chess_laszlo_polgar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/0436/1366/files/infinity_box_download_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0481/2662/3897/files/giruzolotesasabigobasapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9029/4437/files/45041188172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/6648/5655/files/xelezusifiriwov.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9989 5456 bytes
SHA-256: a19b7e0484536c13e9c702377002526c431cb24da348b6cc2d66ca689182ad13
font_01_sfnt_off0000ac1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC1E 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 794e66328620e83a8690f68c2cf77bbf9c1473a6fd0d3214993936c17b19155c
font_02_sfnt_off0000d10a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD10A 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 49436f94d5abf10ca6af8af9848174aab82dfe7bc58a5146411d238fd5c76648
font_03_sfnt_off0000e600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE600 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3