Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9876417ff14e13b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-10-25 03:09:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e2451fce202b5f52e7267233d9e01a0c SHA-1: 2fc34754521c307516bbc0326602506fe7655976 SHA-256: e9876417ff14e13b747317abc0d2831af180f12f89752a9b10f8ed76a5104d0d
210 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious URL, identified as a redirector for SEO spam. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the same as the malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a phishing campaign designed to trick users into visiting malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gettraff.ru/strik?keyword=trainstation+game+cheats In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366661/normal_5f93038646584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368747/normal_5f88fcc13a6df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366381/normal_5f942ff38b27c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373259/normal_5f8c9dbe64b22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369494/normal_5f929e4d94d44.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/6674691d-2bfb-4a97-ba65-3b86832b39de/25009426263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/860aa978-f791-4311-a9f2-2ba678d93768/zagerasepomosajaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b3f3764d-9621-4043-95e6-40cdeb4fb11c/gottfried_bammes_anatomy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jumedemimo/king_arthur_the_sword_in_the_stone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tetazino/all_mathematical_symbols_and_definitions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0495/9921/7827/files/zigepuseterurutamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7846/7222/files/68997434390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/9087/9667/files/35350874735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4548/5725/files/70350963344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2960/8101/files/pokemon_light_platinum_apk_my_boy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mijedusovineti/definition_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/leteraxewe/72246864349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sugaguxagu/38187296588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a7e0a841-66ab-4102-b801-06417761d8ed/software_engineering_10th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c3ec3955-06ea-4238-877d-1ff94e80b6bd/48494838876.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_off000079d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79D5 5128 bytes
SHA-256: ed25cfea8e66d32fc1c2d71121ee76bbaf765009c618adacdd3863e0607d0f3d
font_01_sfnt_off00008b1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B1B 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 3e4a5b370bfa48ca1570c3c10660ef896d3af7b2a9f2f92a73790c64491e7de5