Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee5ce7168fe92b71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.4 KB Created: 2020-10-08 06:44:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 897348d37fa73e39a7591b8d2fd9fcb8 SHA-1: f4b08cadb8435ec3020fd9334b3f35098cf7d654 SHA-256: ee5ce7168fe92b7164a26307c661141233acc7c03384e8063c7d12970632c586
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs that likely serve as lures or further redirection points. The primary malicious activity observed is the redirection to the URL https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=cartas+a+una+joven+matematica+descargar, which is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 3

  • 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 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=cartas+a+una+joven+matematica+descargar In PDF document text
    • https://site-1040990.mozfiles.com/files/1040990/bopudawure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039414.mozfiles.com/files/1039414/41685011468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036630.mozfiles.com/files/1036630/pijusetotuzene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1037135.mozfiles.com/files/1037135/fejenikazejorelopuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040665.mozfiles.com/files/1040665/13904982685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040681.mozfiles.com/files/1040681/62239017708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039725.mozfiles.com/files/1039725/1613726194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1040312.mozfiles.com/files/1040312/kukokipixejavasub.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/436294a2-cc0a-46e1-8a4d-d0203e140391/gegalazef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e8e4a58-6144-4153-bfab-9efab0206b38/90797110866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b322a9c6-5b3e-44dd-9736-0cd69b7c288d/vojirujotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f545c538-3123-41ff-9999-ec13a6304266/nugebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/014821c0-0287-4167-8bab-96f08b95227b/43508875712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b5226c9f-d996-4071-81e5-806013823154/mepuboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/576f8218-0664-4c5d-a956-152530f9e19e/5596068097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004f96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F96 5268 bytes
SHA-256: f8123765158748e78fcc5f564f2854fabf958277361a9400a4a1de34b4bc100c