Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d182014b6c143c38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.3 KB Created: 2020-10-28 11:38:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8788cb08fc2635de607eb9eabdb1502a SHA-1: 42680da29c66470b306fc1a767fe0b885b656246 SHA-256: d182014b6c143c386b6f0a28760e23ea5522e5aa4cdd8fb7c65dca9a0d4bb3a2
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign.

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://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=sat+stands+for+medical In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402720/normal_5f96cdb5d7e79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366048/normal_5f871e3b783cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368249/normal_5f8a3f0a5f9ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375340/normal_5f8aa347cb16e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388052/normal_5f8d20e37a2dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388424/normal_5f922630da4ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373271/normal_5f88a2f7db89d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404515/normal_5f9712eb30f15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423155/normal_5f9859663de46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xojerajap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384359/xekena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobuzuwatajol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310732/5cce286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pesajupamobe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607203/b109f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://judemozosuduj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134306717/kepigadoro_nosopanusemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jowodetuleguzu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856173/4159dca013d461d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luwobidope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814225/9fa10aa3c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakukumi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134437371/8194850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/8304/5293/files/honeywell_5808w3_wireless_smoke_detector_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0492/3057/7817/files/character_sheet_app_android_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0478/9754/2822/files/cheap_flight_to_norway_from_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jimugivos/56900852775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/robumuduluwise/wenebo.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000821e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x821E 5272 bytes
SHA-256: aa889788234e07d46cdc63358b8b1f1532a9f282d983471db9108fad2da87155
font_01_sfnt_off000093eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93EB 3720 bytes
SHA-256: 6539b129c5cd894636dc8f40f53a156c00c8f46378ab4f137c96d687a1cff6ed
font_02_sfnt_off00009f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F4E 10672 bytes
SHA-256: ef0708e8c9b5b85d34a973076b8be95843fa379d7c9572cbd2fb9c75f9b2491f