Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd695444ba76fdb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-11-07 10:10:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 048553cdde18dab1f14fcc402f1d6674 SHA-1: 9b7beab3bdc32cbc8bbf721b173ebe1b93060f17 SHA-256: cd695444ba76fdb580fb850c4accc9dad4f1e1f92b9719678ac143aee1fbc5eb
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded URI that redirects to a link farm, which in turn hosts multiple other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a phishing or scam campaign designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafftec.ru/123?keyword=what+is+amazon+renewed PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393511/normal_5f911e628184d.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/d0db591a-97d6-4268-9dd9-a66d7cf09f63/79242317490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bejagidet.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/92014590420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fugafina938553339.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/bolekunekokapul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lixuzo/old_slotomania_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gudusuk.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/rofugibazamemedipiwabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://situres.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/placement_test_study_guide_math.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/henghuili-files2/wenajigixotomobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a64c77e-9e9b-49c9-a80f-700987b94238/custom_maid_3d_2_1.04_patch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuxabavijig.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/37940387668.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_off00006036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6036 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 0639b1fec61121493c2a9f2dd0b6c50e4e55d3a6eb2c1dfe0e4d93a2a3fcb567
font_01_sfnt_off000071ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71CA 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 7535961973492c32388a560f83eb5df70a5e1de634610ca7f1464d73ac4e6cab