Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d17b330ca6846d26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-10-15 08:54:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: ba36e9e7266320541a55b2da76a60f12 SHA-1: e39290891f035d132a4a9715ecfab31920e69897 SHA-256: d17b330ca6846d269bbc4aa96a35415fcd71f0285dfc0db7783a1e0ed90aac4c
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a link farm pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary URL, 'https://ggtraff.ru/123?keyword=essential+neuroscience+3rd+edition+pdf', is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and link farm behavior indicate a malicious intent, likely related to SEO manipulation or redirecting users to phishing or malware sites.

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.
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/123?keyword=essential+neuroscience+3rd+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://site-1037282.mozfiles.com/files/1037282/25487164883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1042025.mozfiles.com/files/1042025/glitter_tumbler_washing_instructions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036779.mozfiles.com/files/1036779/11786534244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038344.mozfiles.com/files/1038344/rideguminesunitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366385/normal_5f8788c2e13a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366973/normal_5f87c7126525b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366032/normal_5f87be964d01b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366055/normal_5f872d628d885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366311/normal_5f8726012f87e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043096.mozfiles.com/files/1043096/latar_belakang_agama_buddha.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1043882.mozfiles.com/files/1043882/77042446001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036867.mozfiles.com/files/1036867/20655447792.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/9c960f84-7daf-4d43-bbf7-ab20ff959cee/75363126307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c32ee2c2-3f16-4f69-b143-dadc8e25dfdf/kusadilomapibutevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7a055d33-d924-4260-86d1-9120401a18b9/4424090550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5a26e7e4-42af-4786-9800-24600a86d75d/38199085920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7150/4537/files/descargar_por_el_placer_de_vivir_cesar_lozano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0478/4947/2159/files/71380575756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0486/1765/2382/files/latagefixamaganumumufuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/1243/0230/files/outfield_positions_in_softball.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/0931/3438/files/hp_pro_tablet_608_g1_stylus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5150/8131/files/pixiripidameruk.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_off00005e75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E75 5268 bytes
SHA-256: d1f522198aa1053d8414674f43c5f46cedefd0c5e7525a380c36147ad0a8b01b
font_01_sfnt_off0000706a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x706A 9952 bytes
SHA-256: 2f902783a3717e0d2f171ccd439a7b52189eb4021883db319515fa13c26f2a04