Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9ecc8ace713d76a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-10-28 14:43:29 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 69dfacf619cb154c59fabcfac82d7a55 SHA-1: 87c22687fc65382e264cf4e2aa2052a754ff2146 SHA-256: c9ecc8ace713d76a1287c56ba01842049418cc55c6f8f7e3b1a5161e8a212ec1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious infrastructure, specifically `https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=canon+ir+8070+error+e0191`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains fragments suggesting a technical error lure. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to PDF files on file-sharing services, indicates a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic and potentially distribute further malicious content. 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=canon+ir+8070+error+e0191 In PDF document text
    • https://wepugimi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070973/4323774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378152/normal_5f92c119201c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidurelofomus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740547/6a28b9286db0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobuxowomi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235628/8882328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381287/normal_5f8c31709d3ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376096/normal_5f91174c1e43c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vabeliguteziji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379360/suputapukeduv-tolegurur-judixokenatofu-xamugokururab.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/ea8cfdc3-7519-48ce-9c52-e28473bf9e84/tunofenufedirobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4c62dc0c-95b4-48f6-b71a-b705182f195a/32677584341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc9b60d3-9d8c-408e-8cc8-a45f7ce5d6f5/41324264357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4d91f4e1-1988-4918-8195-ae4d6f4b66d8/lidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e28977c9-d261-485d-950d-5fe7300d0baf/60270613907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/55b0704c-04b4-4e41-9b26-9895a40b1355/wedoferufifezaworajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2eacab58-e291-434b-8800-3be4622003b7/mebizuraki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4594a967-603f-4e86-9c71-29586420bd12/cemaat_in_iflasC4B1_indir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ronenitevodo/california_notary_acknowledgment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c7b852d-9d78-4817-9014-58e2a850e2bf/rudiwenagalovofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bakoloj/72393061932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bisute/kubesapodofoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8b5bceb3-801d-4185-8880-b605aa7e934b/vukutesirosabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f12fac9c-bf8e-4635-b1bc-7e45788c13e3/zogivutemalakozinole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/544beae0-ff56-47f9-ab26-ddeacd1e2ab8/31981537279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/63263041-b210-4b59-9b9b-30783468b9ef/venogatonilijezexeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/juduk/skeletron_prime_expert_guide.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_off000062d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62D2 5000 bytes
SHA-256: a4a29e8c9f93a1f8fc7c424aae11683f316df8b99c6a0724adb491ad8f0cfcbf
font_01_sfnt_off000073e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73E7 11472 bytes
SHA-256: 7ae6d672f751f537730b915a4f5709feae4af07c9218bc47697d57400d81f7c5
font_02_sfnt_off00009a92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A92 20060 bytes
SHA-256: a4085da2144229e1f46011e2e239110909248dab0d1c74eb68690bc6655a0ea9