Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dadc64375eaa5bdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-10-11 16:25:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 7c1d66fd79ad9986bd0fd4253fe46878 SHA-1: ea05a3c083df1ee9c61cc15d6a06aaec84391f2b SHA-256: dadc64375eaa5bdc7fe586eee2b93908b24888ce6b5e98c711ca6d9c600fe79f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF documents hosted across many different domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, likely used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics identified it as a redirector link and a link farm on disposable hosting.

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://cctraff.ru/pify?keyword=lyrics+the+fresh+prince+of+bel+air+tv+themes In PDF document text
    • http://gulopu.lamblamp.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814448/b6904074f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitavofir.kentuckyveteransoftheyear.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383548/nifemigozaxesifigif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.simonlaurieart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738875/vutewomegivakufido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heyhill-land.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637224/572140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fidiw.auracraze.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163992/nenikuwepen-zivinutubavib-wunobi-serofemagomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038345.mozfiles.com/files/1038345/47607207810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036938.mozfiles.com/files/1036938/topabiwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039815.mozfiles.com/files/1039815/32328424033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039274.mozfiles.com/files/1039274/sokafemotoparopotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038762.mozfiles.com/files/1038762/72545565650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036820.mozfiles.com/files/1036820/paderawilotizalameku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1044026.mozfiles.com/files/1044026/vujetepuxovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038825.mozfiles.com/files/1038825/fefogulumolanuzotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoset.farmtoballet.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815017/8637244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.moboholife.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453996/5181907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rangelandwildlife.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776276/4eef5f341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vokox.assuringgraduatecapabilities.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070001/7758a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off000069b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69B6 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 444731b4462039d2e2ec4bf4747cb03e17f1a85180444bacd7fbdeaf3f8b7e3f
font_01_sfnt_off00007c44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C44 10328 bytes
SHA-256: d29b32fecb1684d8e7a85640e1c3741c00b2041aead5047d5744187265ef4f73