Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fac57d54e9572d18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.6 KB Created: 2020-10-27 11:32:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: dfb943871a946b284e610c4e962e2290 SHA-1: f8b840c2e5d41e5dae2fbb489ab594672a0dd5e0 SHA-256: fac57d54e9572d1838aed11fabf0c22d07cadfccf1ac33f17c615173c4d69445
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ggtraff.ru/123?keyword=solvent+miscibility+and+viscosity+chart, which is likely used to redirect the user to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to financial and technical topics, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and traffic redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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/123?keyword=solvent+miscibility+and+viscosity+chart In PDF document text
    • https://jovikuveditowe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874612/2914057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kunisalopug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315348/vevegimezafu-lezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuwuperozaposa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303395/mefanabugutiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bogadisosupotaj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776541/nizux_lamezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sokuvotaboraj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776263/58aa4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxitasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454719/9717265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zasigusedorel.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134386673/3306307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xukanimuwuvam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696198/263c1081c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murov.info/orgcmpds.htmIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/9365/0325/files/walmart_financial_weaknesses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/3097/3080/files/kowokimimazirun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8812/4830/files/4941626599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/1576/8733/files/student_exploration_chemical_equations_gizmo_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0495/9797/2629/files/application_blocked_by_java_security_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f9ccb3bd-1a02-4035-a185-0bce522a3d78/zunajofobezetotowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2505a513-aa25-42d0-a113-6f670bb9d6ce/kufibojetezenojom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/54df56b8-f4d3-4831-8e6f-1f7bc1b6f6eb/libros_de_medicina_china_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/839402b4-9f12-4909-b0c8-6a78667af292/bearded_dragon_dying_signs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c97667f0-862a-47b2-9409-a1e339d11105/wefomuxirozefefimozovise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/491d02fc-9e38-428d-8152-17873e909f4d/leduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/8361/9232/files/61666996250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5787/2038/files/pixel_launcher_3.1_apk.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_off00008951.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8951 5584 bytes
SHA-256: d4b6aa0b51fe982c4cea5afe2bd9f2f22a3c498f5cb05d3ea378b8a6d42bb1f0
font_01_sfnt_off00009c18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C18 11744 bytes
SHA-256: 44f1059a79a20437e36aa2f5f418890cdc2db6487c8ddc65f61b5347aed9be3f
font_02_sfnt_off0000c2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2BD 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501