Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4a0d3d4c7a1d269…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2020-10-28 21:08:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 721751ae1125d0849a2bac527b022fdd SHA-1: 9f31c32334df6f35c4bec9834a5de2e991562bb3 SHA-256: e4a0d3d4c7a1d269a21ae94f65f65ffe76e8e270b340968304be4559406ae0f2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive title and a link that redirects to a known malicious URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics confirm it links to redirector infrastructure. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely leading to a further stage of the attack.

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://ttraff.club/123?keyword=activity+2.3+glass+box+answers In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374979/normal_5f8a2be052bcf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365589/normal_5f8cbd849d42e.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/ceae6577-753f-49cc-84d0-147eb9b75214/puperesupadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/38f29a0a-9dcc-4627-a1c4-e99ba834620b/chaudiere_centora_code_erreur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fa3f0ba2-1797-4518-b058-5bb84136275e/59788094488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/26978dc7-8c8b-4c8a-86ee-05545759cbbb/pixels_online_free_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da1f0701-590c-47a4-899f-e9ccf299fefe/67544416254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8dae4035-9363-48a9-a780-49ced7f4c750/punctuation_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/henghuili-files2/bible_verses_about_the_holy_spirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0486/4471/8760/files/convert_to_kindle_e_reader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0505/1596/8172/files/16783113001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sugaguxagu/orthodox_tewahedo_bible_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/7147/9201/files/33941172440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0034/7299/files/90017839798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dowavelaxam/kowokaxepokigevifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b24c776a-59cb-4776-b7fb-30911dd44a94/6767106562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wonoti/depoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/susopuzupure/contoh_proposal_skripsi_kualitatif_pendidikan_agama_islam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jojitagifuva/introduction_search_engine_optimization.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ecf84d9f-ac43-4a97-9a2d-e748c36cb49a/fomugudukasinesitateleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2557/files/definition_of_additive_property_of_equality_in_math.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/joterige/biblical_commentary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wonoti/corporations_act_2001_download.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a10f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA10F 5748 bytes
SHA-256: 222babd168a1a096e985bf824ef3d9a87d1ec013d8bef9c52a497dcd504e5791
font_01_sfnt_off0000b4e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4E2 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 321bd381e5fe11dc5840c6e97e1bec87814232b08a600fc91e8cb20bcfd587cf
font_02_sfnt_off0000d9ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9AD 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 2841b1c187c92c8b801cda133fdb0f2ff62ee130a80dbc3c62e538b199db7115