Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdb8098c3089c51d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2020-12-26 07:42:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 234118ee03ac5f714ece868c3dd670eb SHA-1: b927444e456e95cdea4e1242ffbaa3282e558d0d SHA-256: cdb8098c3089c51dcdcac795b4c14249fd0815d1254cee6e9bace10f3afc611a
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and phishing attempts. It links to a known malicious redirector, ggtraff.ru, which is disguised as a download for 'Magic tiles 3 faded alan walker'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create malicious PDFs. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to benign-looking PDFs on strikinglycdn.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/strik?utm_term=magic+tiles+3+faded+alan+walker In PDF document text
    • https://mujolimu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134868529/cab679b3a4f0083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lujoduxatodovaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302833/4624727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezijiso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134690371/dowusa.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/17c52d8f-bbeb-41d9-8c28-3d6e7ff310d2/28944978324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ec3ab80a-fa16-4626-93aa-f1106d8f6e30/81332546369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fde8ad1b-9f1c-4587-9436-04b57f442fcf/xaxovedemimujifos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f1c05a76-798f-49d7-bc20-26e2be102bc1/the_joker_full_movie_free_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/henghuili-files/marizimiduzapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d8624a24-123b-4e91-a3eb-bd8c4202a85b/logical_fallacies_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ronenitevodo/todojesosugaluwukame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a785b742-937c-40c7-bf54-65819055c083/peer_evaluation_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/10431a61-8375-41ef-be67-0bac5e7ac047/15067510582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0168f98d-c51f-4dad-83ac-29075f6c1926/walmart_westbank_new_orleans.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c3b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3B7 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 8c80939a055618cd12873499d2afc2ff5e36ebd895455cba301fde6a2a9f3b48
font_01_sfnt_off0000d575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD575 11336 bytes
SHA-256: eb15de8a37e64ec26aaa3b589f6d14e0fbbb8e7ff6cfc5d596cf4068b24d7c61
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB49 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3