Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca5e103a9a18772b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-10-27 11:03:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7db5258c17fb7993d8deb140bd27414a SHA-1: 4e6a22581b9c2cc29f639fb04f05d8fc43514819 SHA-256: ca5e103a9a18772b36ca9346336d0e3215fa099e8781772c15cab3562b11805e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirect URL and appears to be a lure for a "systems of equations with fractions worksheet". The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector URL is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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/123?keyword=systems+of+equations+with+fractions+worksheet In PDF document text
    • https://dutitujazekap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814390/kadijamiruvinugeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bigogewoxof.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739615/tevowomoruzep_bejobuninuzivud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zajefepitav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266194/fajerojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wopuremob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696580/xisosukadewaw_pukaletika.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/lefemijip/sanitary_engineering_handbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jepavilutabilel/cantico_delle_creature_testo_e_parafrasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/magapeguwabe/zezafezemamofetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wilugugo/27481639662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vavale/48677803671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lakadutof/calculus_and_its_applications_12th_edition_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vavebufevodutob/arthritis_causes_symptoms_and_treatment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01acdb38-29b2-46dc-b57d-9b8ed5182120/82732867440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/50b768bb-bb91-4283-87df-5a7164c2a40d/74529436055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a2411ee-283d-473c-afc7-55f81d03e766/ak_ve_gurur_jane_austen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0e819015-58e1-499b-896e-f7434d0cbe77/31650753193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1697ebad-0f4d-4873-9a81-54c3ce8f7b82/bosch_300_dryer_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/8361/9232/files/kamurapaterilesavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/2651/2544/files/merkaba_meditation_maureen_st_germain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0263/2104/files/tadukuganujosuviviviguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3430/1848/files/allen_county_recorders_office.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/2366/0732/files/32681887144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/6985/8491/files/vuxudad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0277/3440/9406/files/herpes_simplex_2_treatment_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1762/3957/files/onan_emerald_1_genset_parts_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0478/1791/6575/files/code_promo_bsp_auto_guide_du_routard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4672/2965/files/9570990677.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_off0000620c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x620C 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 5162f7b464237aba5266762601c860b410053d631bccee070d09fdc94a1f89ca
font_01_sfnt_off000074e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E8 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 30285987e605bfd7d8d92e56f00cac29de3e80c63d29ca7583b1c0faeede2a7d