Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fad592aacb31f473…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-11-07 18:47:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b276d2c5bef472b4a8bce0ec12b85ddd SHA-1: 1de9e2a718882ee3cb9b089ee9abd92e34d3ce06 SHA-256: fad592aacb31f47318e5136abbb7a44eee93040c406a7f093c56412e1003b50e
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised with keywords suggesting a news article. This indicates a phishing attempt to lure users to a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • 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://traffine.ru/123?keyword=wlox+news+gulfport+and+biloxi In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468820/normal_5fa48b8aa506e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4458125/normal_5fa69241681a3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421472/normal_5f9b07d0345b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384644/normal_5f983484190c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368227/normal_5fa407dd55394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417032/normal_5fa07d5d146a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408460/normal_5f95ad0595cd8.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/lomogas/86722328962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rexogeguxosix/google_photos_search_by_camera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/baxekojojexusol/joining_the_conversation_a_guide_for_writers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mazugezijap/walter_of_wabash_table_slides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/biwubeleba/humongous_book_of_calculus_problems.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jikopot/air_force_previous_question_papers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zupenafud/ffxiv_bridesmoogle_minion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vososasoxumete/apk_on_ios.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_off0000762c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x762C 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 043f8454869819e80fed837514f29a4da02a49c08910a2ac38600c54bd262253
font_01_sfnt_off0000891d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x891D 11404 bytes
SHA-256: d8421a4addb705b177d8be422b1ba6751ea7781c706f69079ee3eff9821e2353