Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de07683ebc624409…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-10-27 21:42:26 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4dfdf41ffcef0fba42f0527c171e3be6 SHA-1: 717b5a4accead6127211ad9f46fc8191398fe8d7 SHA-256: de07683ebc6244097a7a73b347e1a802b4bbb30d592a05fe1b1fbc130988cf4f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that lead to external sites. One critical finding is a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ggtraff.ru'. The document body contains garbled text but includes the string '6013 welding rod sizes', likely a lure to attract clicks. The presence of many links on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content.

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/123?keyword=6013+welding+rod+sizes In PDF document text
    • https://jeponiruwapin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776483/2525163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vodiwisilob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681054/8709022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tebefatudu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134329870/afe09a24e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jimigafekalese.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407537/lazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://junoxavod.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384771/juduvorugatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guxesawaxogego.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134314991/ef29ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3725865e-a617-41ab-a158-19650cdc0b83/xugapubigoninuvizovavazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cb0658dc-ca9c-4e85-a90c-17cd58d82b7f/rush_maya_banks_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/776033fd-ff91-4aa8-a624-9a53719ec423/64737535323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/866fe3b4-73ac-4336-9a44-d6ad4669a438/que_es_el_enlace_glucosidico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f11580b-036e-40be-af80-9bae8a3165a3/motel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0503/3505/6030/files/hamilton_beach_coffee_maker_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vinivuxo/rufogibononuliziteduxudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kokesatodixon/c._s._lewis_the_lion_the_witch_and_the_wardrobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/3338/5882/files/3968319516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5752/8478/files/sterlingwear_of_boston_store.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/3187/8562/files/wufawewaketevezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/3397/9811/files/skyline_high_school_utah_football_coach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4805/0583/files/kodak_easyshare_z981_wont_turn_on.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_off0000645e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x645E 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 1cfb03ec190609a4e34445195e8dc1f38576a33df01b8557d4676f8653cd42e9
font_01_sfnt_off000076a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76A5 9612 bytes
SHA-256: ffcabf9e3ac53631e27d2ad284ebbe9307de97d3f9975d677b2e4d913fdaac3d