Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e05a2eb37cf1afd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-10-03 22:20:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 50100328a405f2762bfed0ec98f17309 SHA-1: ef0d6747cf25e46dd568610de13a6a33af8dc016 SHA-256: e05a2eb37cf1afd1e76372c0879b5ce6edad085d2c62e073b3128cd185597c9e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is designed as a link farm, containing numerous links to external PDF files hosted on various domains. One of the embedded links is identified as a known malicious redirector, and the overall structure suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

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://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=harley+quinn+decals+designs In PDF document text
    • http://files.moirconstruction.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/bea289c2aaf6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parukajid.dayofgrace.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382028/70d3c4d63d77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.idslsuppliesltd.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681656/2032378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038538.mozfiles.com/files/1038538/zeduti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surupisox.muse2320fiber.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607407/foderanivedaje-polirari-saniwixixesen-tuzafowugikilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.junkim666.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856318/davude_wuxuzokimilu_pepuwovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viriz.gadcsoftball.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/56c60f8a034b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rbboysbasketball.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384260/4751563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036689.mozfiles.com/files/1036689/bimopagakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037189.mozfiles.com/files/1037189/tobifukujaxonena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037238.mozfiles.com/files/1037238/serabebebeso.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_off00006ef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EF0 5296 bytes
SHA-256: ed4ebb7da7238df30b0e7e154cbd2ab57a8f28d281cf438a4bf1c832828f1ef5
font_01_sfnt_off000080fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80FD 10208 bytes
SHA-256: dece6ba1b672e500be352bf6447815d8079b35ea976776f2a5e7518773b5e758