Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d988bf6e4e256fc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2020-10-19 06:17:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: c6631aa9376790fe6c73ed0a948f7f4c SHA-1: 0ffff01aa8df354e3f2dc875206f6313436b754b SHA-256: d988bf6e4e256fc52f0c4033e211126852e82962173ca0d61ff8672213fda90e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=corporate+valuation+theory+evidence`. The heuristic `PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK` confirms this. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=corporate+valuation+theory+evidence In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366400/normal_5f8a93143b360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371787/normal_5f8c584f19acb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365653/normal_5f887908a4083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365619/normal_5f8708b7983c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366024/normal_5f873887e9dd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368230/normal_5f87c5b4b29bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366964/normal_5f8959b20956a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369146/normal_5f8bae858df75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366645/normal_5f87e73323947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384632/normal_5f8c9bff4a9e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367925/normal_5f88cf93bced1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369174/normal_5f89e5ed4a5de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366362/normal_5f8cca081b885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367304/normal_5f87a6decf9a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369304/normal_5f8ce15a3430a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382781/normal_5f8cbab5970ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369516/normal_5f8895bce193b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc16c241-df42-4c1a-872c-aff99f8c6336/84416494360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6ba83962-af8f-45f4-b9b5-cc4bd6f92b14/patizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce5f81a5-71bd-44bf-b7d0-26244cc28d42/zonevipowezalilatanagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2427/5866/files/digimon_cyber_sleuth_guide_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7528/0552/files/sin_noticias_de_gurb_resumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8987/7405/files/64391801277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0492/9395/1132/files/jurnal_spektrofotometri_fluoresensi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fefe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFE 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 74fad9d5f4ad0019b26cc49b73f9256757a4aa7a51c2150b34e02bd61228e6dd
font_01_sfnt_off0001102a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102A 12140 bytes
SHA-256: 0feaa4daa077b33eb562d2ee33877eb8ab21523a5ebe9a8f97e7bfe29359abb7
font_02_sfnt_off000136e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136E0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c