Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d127a2634a09f48d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2020-09-21 15:21:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4155c0f038a720b14dd3987829ff90bf SHA-1: b1200dd2cc035be050384a26fc05ba29fb036861 SHA-256: d127a2634a09f48dcd6a7411339c58368132643411f2103816941e948dc8aa50
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of this malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=cast+fossil+synonym In PDF document text
    • http://gevofed.thecdsdrag.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775692/33a2f86ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.erinsmithlac.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681910/15caa91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.divorcecoachingandconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874518/bejam-soselovorifat-tekumubobup-powidonuvewadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wellesleypops.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814078/8891f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xokita.art-by-raquel.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813305/xovobinuxenazole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risux.arcticaudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438873/8b31347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nubuxe.laffirmationstation.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740003/nipixoloduwije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.medexnet.nl/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857465/614662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://6d5854ee-925e-4e01-a6b0-b95c1de280c5.filesusr.com/ugd/948cea_fb8cb50ee1e64afa801b315691ac9088.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://132b36f5-1e63-4b9c-8c76-f69574eb565e.filesusr.com/ugd/062c90_db3929cb787f44db95d059b0699b44a5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39f8a68f-e3b4-455c-917f-0da734d5a4df.filesusr.com/ugd/4117a9_2a3063ba831c494ca6a95a6e78c81c86.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://99140630-cb5e-40c7-824d-a2e303ea0558.filesusr.com/ugd/40512e_3577a94dae43464ab67cf6411c72cac4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdce44cc-857b-4226-8dc6-6c2c80179501.filesusr.com/ugd/f7fbc8_dec2ca96b87e4b57ab8793c37df2f107.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8471/5934/files/aisi_deewangi_video_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4391/2856/files/90546955030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3463/1579/files/denujigeb.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 9

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_010_off0000ed57.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xED57 18176 bytes
SHA-256: 9a53eb0f5d899206140142024e1329928d04523b9b037af6ea44b3d64dff0b7c
font_00_sfnt_off00006c72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C72 4564 bytes
SHA-256: c94d0f1127e35bb60c705b31408b4cb579f91a52eded9fa4545a528f8e324a42
font_01_sfnt_off00007cb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB9 4824 bytes
SHA-256: c4ee6e8463ad23d52cdf7e471d386fc1068d46a6bb18b2743352dce78ecf26c1
font_02_sfnt_off00008d15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D15 2656 bytes
SHA-256: dbaab8dcf32bfe64cb008f34eb54f5316f62236e8dffe3de49b44225404383a5
font_03_sfnt_off00009819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9819 2328 bytes
SHA-256: 864cbe2c6973b44d2b71e19ffbffb2328dcb3759b07ceb43c11d5a372fc4956d
font_04_sfnt_off0000a2cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2CF 2108 bytes
SHA-256: d117309382da938f7dffedc42f90dd4217b4d540d75629b80669d975ecbc171e
font_05_sfnt_off0000ac9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC9A 6640 bytes
SHA-256: 538512be6c526ea957b587fa229624d829dca4873b622d187784a60d2c877fcd
font_06_sfnt_off0000be38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE38 14840 bytes
SHA-256: a92ad84dfcdb346042812a8347e81ba40974408f689cdbd09bd700a7ff82b92a
font_08_sfnt_off00010a23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A23 3276 bytes
SHA-256: c12c670e310cd2dd0f4b1ea6ea0d01ef35e1284caa1cfc967b978b02bd897c09