Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3fd90ebb36b899f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.2 KB Created: 2020-11-24 07:39:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a3c726c834ed627e12ae7640e93d2920 SHA-1: 1b8c52de865cd218ddbfaa76a27eeb3972bd3215 SHA-256: d3fd90ebb36b899f7ea92eb9b6786c15ce9db6dc657143e98953a3c9d742470b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, identified by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, suggesting a link farm or SEO spamming operation. One prominent external URI points to 'https://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=csx+railroad+jobs+alabama', which is presented in a context that mimics job search results. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or spam content, potentially for phishing or ad fraud.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=csx+railroad+jobs+alabama
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4428069/normal_5fa066ab0b2e1.pdf
    • https://kepelawurolunuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017158/6495362.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368227/normal_5f961fa02b366.pdf
    • https://xasugalepo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311154/lobunuxowamaza.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450037/normal_5fa308c464c6e.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387233/normal_5fa5072247c13.pdf
    • https://gokajafiwewafij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314986/zigebisumev.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2863726-71f0-47c9-b55d-0452a1ed4719/vifiriveragetubizizi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58e2acd7-bcb2-42fc-b42c-215c31690ae3/dominos_sandwiches_details.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ee11da5c-da9e-4230-aa2a-a3b24f18eff1/59308910192.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c3d760b7-0848-468e-abe2-e10c03dc341e/33297812812.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/27d83b29-d731-4c3f-8c87-496f2a8d0a5f/27185971991.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/245b4716-4bb1-4c07-acb4-b9e3a1faec41/gukofufeba.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c70d.bin
5e9b2f572a4fb109bc9218551728280858c0a6795a994bb98750aef673837f32
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC70D 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d881.bin
41b6938504ee1543b0cf3967fc99cf33aed5047af4c2a75c12ff643f2410cd77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD881 10564 bytes