Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6de71a9950964e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-10-29 10:46:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 5b371871e13dbc0c2dcf82b549f51d71 SHA-1: 36bf9e2a11a1c85ab86f86bdeed72c259b3581f9 SHA-256: d6de71a9950964e2d3a9d8ba27ae97fce4a3ca85254e21dfac065c430526b66a
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting services and redirectors. The primary heuristic firings indicate that this is a malicious redirector and a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/strik?keyword=affton+high+school+graduation+2020 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366668/normal_5f95dfc42db2a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morekifozolil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134332894/3c52d0a8f8a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413345/normal_5f98928a165de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kivuligob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874143/f7445143d2e444f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389365/normal_5f8f754c51498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jupisururixed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339091/zovamitabadukinuzagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zesopupejilit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738861/6523888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xufizigox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134479456/25272327a5f0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409411/normal_5f95f714d4ffb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedizegoresupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379398/zanazanekoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lififamofupuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317858/9421903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369797/normal_5f90d83b8264c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suragovitig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265770/2365166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366664/normal_5f8748373765c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sijevunima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859613/78f7b7ac897d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365628/normal_5f8d438e22556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeponiruwapin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776483/2922981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wefamojugibe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164519/826b873ef97b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saxibodusazo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740440/jepif_galawavosag_madofogapemet_situnofigukisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sezebepit/bethesda_clasificacion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fujadabez/xegodibapevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jofunozuzof/swka_angielskie_poziom_b2.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_off000069e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69E9 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 99b2a926387fd508edbbbf87c7d63fc32a773b87b1b87bff5b5d7e8e229de878
font_01_sfnt_off00007cc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CC7 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 9c6627355f1c4cd71061a58480dc3bb710afc4c43a0a7a9631441c990d41f05b