Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb5ef73123b2ec23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2020-10-24 17:11:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 67cb2a5df7adac160c68274d693fced4 SHA-1: 2d64412261d5ac570913b7d11329ac66827b38e0 SHA-256: cb5ef73123b2ec23e2b48c24131ea6b847ecadccb008aab9b164a2f3497431df
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to link farms and redirector infrastructure, indicating a likely SEO spam or phishing campaign. The embedded child PDF also contains suspicious findings, including malicious redirector links. While no scripts were directly executed, the structure suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9645

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.
  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • 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/wb?keyword=add%20three%20addends%20worksheet In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387808/normal_5f8df5b17d19c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378605/normal_5f9382a88a88d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385413/normal_5f930822ac182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xonuveviriniw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738603/mufozexoguvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wekubuzebebam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739705/8138098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lipowuripipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378852/nazobupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4386591/normal_5f9431c829574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366008/normal_5f87113980aca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369762/normal_5f8ab172adf7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365626/normal_5f87049f87f85.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388617/normal_5f8e2688997b5.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://s3.amazonaws.com/zirojopemup/30869723303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tapexiw/56108221100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0496/2431/8115/files/35956487334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3628/6877/files/nova_lista_iptv_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0496/7107/8045/files/84209978381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6601/5395/files/garou_mark_of_the_wolves_apk_data.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0480/7481/7693/files/60684847883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0480/7481/7693/files/98331066643.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007a4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A4F 4768 bytes
SHA-256: 0ed5b99cde8c0dd7a02e574c08a3a52d735c4835a5da4ce5bcfac61a38b50129
font_02_sfnt_off00012694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12694 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 8a6622a040e2bfac5977efb02336880de382330524b1604266979cae6e64a775
font_03_sfnt_off00014b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B29 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
polyglot_child_pdf_off00009c22.pdf polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x9C22 51856 bytes
SHA-256: c521f663eb34e0e3b365ae824093efe2d05057592b779fbc0264eb8131e1a0e2