Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2b8e61beea648b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.3 KB Created: 2020-10-27 02:41:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 40dfff52aec6ca55ada742a0c58935d1 SHA-1: bfc256c5bef384622e51e0312cbb118a11651916 SHA-256: d2b8e61beea648b46f9b2973c3eec499a5068a05b0ffdda1d12f98cfed983830
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and at least one link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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/123?keyword=comma+before+whereas In PDF document text
    • https://xojerajap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384359/xomaseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevigetadafuwun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969942/wolomukeruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385021/normal_5f90b1280efbd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407777/normal_5f97525165e43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425217/normal_5f975f1718cc0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366395/normal_5f8fa7f8bd7ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401976/normal_5f92019565124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tibiwurab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695994/b333adcd30d4d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wefamojugibe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164519/8b54d5197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netaluzubik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813777/xamilisi-jukadimovoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvofexe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163751/seluguwisuni-pesakogivipe-luvida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawowigo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774982/ec45b1ee736e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375504/normal_5f8d270d1604a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388424/normal_5f93f910bc88f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368736/normal_5f8a48bec4a1d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393785/normal_5f91b8628e21e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4182827-73ab-47e4-86ab-f7a5b6586cbd/20214270898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ccf1a73f-c313-4437-8243-15964b04047a/hot_chocolate_run_des_moines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60d0820d-b2be-49f7-b60b-f25a376d19d5/holes_louis_sachar_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e08845a1-e4a1-4c97-960f-48a201657c5f/45054053027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5155896b-79ed-458d-9322-111f45303962/94018625878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/97b02882-c7fc-4119-a1d0-f6bdfa52d234/fiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/173d774d-4ecd-4d5f-9c7b-9b9400e996db/pineapple_fruit_dip.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.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000808e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x808E 4784 bytes
SHA-256: c40bae180323aa4e9fd878a1d3e174bedf06920f5a71a5ca4a5ba0be925a179f
font_01_sfnt_off000090cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90CB 6664 bytes
SHA-256: 45f8315503a561eb7d65c1ac01289cf56488475696238c523307d264318450e8
font_02_sfnt_off0000a253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA253 10248 bytes
SHA-256: a3077cb66678dff906f9151badfcecd2d4eb4a05338ffb905137ffaa4b50fc79
font_03_sfnt_off0000c52e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC52E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34