Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3964e8f25717923…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-11-02 01:45:12 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3c692acd75c36ab7063b7bb6814179b6 SHA-1: 305ff5bb352b7d3af9befefc557c76375c7d0144 SHA-256: e3964e8f25717923b5ad572e7c02eab99cf5996513410a47850410c196f195ff
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate downloads or game sites, but they all point to a malicious redirector at 'https://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=old+is+gold+games+legit'. This redirector likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm heuristic further supports the 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=old+is+gold+games+legit In PDF document text
    • https://vozutadisifik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483249/zumenaxaja-jivaj-giluvatuju-kimuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365575/normal_5f98359504ec4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367303/normal_5f8aa4b3df32c.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/dazinibonofobi/54929151221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rebesudanolo/85061389333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wukara/54977850570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3865/3086/files/dapokivujalomamuzazamevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2137/5387/files/52811495032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/libeganot/the_abundance_book_by_john_randolph_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0496/7255/2601/files/slope_ball_unblocked_weebly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/juvuraguvutoxif/balance_in_design_principles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/0531/9617/files/class_1_trailer_camper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jotizifime/grammarway_3_with_answers_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gopuze/excellent_english_grammar_book_class_12.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tosasugokod/syrac_gas_block.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_off00005c75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C75 5076 bytes
SHA-256: f5ef4cfd6982f114f6a2151a7be004cab5c6e1a31cea9a33cf6c7ca585cfe015
font_01_sfnt_off00006da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DA4 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 91ced1365d04c93b472059b9775a52e1e41a2301c9db3c5b1c22733ea6c24f25