Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe9fc5a182d0cff1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-10-12 01:24:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 156600ab0e178a797b15154385a2176c SHA-1: cbec91c189852ac4b9eb4374ccf929898f266198 SHA-256: fe9fc5a182d0cff1f2d58f58cd2236507d3a822e693f3df5da5ca3994df05142
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to suspicious or known malicious domains. The heuristic firings indicate it is acting as a link farm, likely to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a redirector link further supports a malicious intent to lead users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not 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.
  • 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/pify?keyword=kodak+retina+iiic+photos In PDF document text
    • http://vofamifun.mordirections.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740033/tagokabofo-jekudofaj-dofuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salopomi.karinepigeon.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636612/1ef5b4420f75fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zotubu.philippschaz.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/wukabamedojumositu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jawajizi.andiimedia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454106/rutiburezovujulibak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cherryhurstcivic.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406506/titidimekipizere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nozuzago.wilkinsartandcreative.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775880/vijudoxaninemodezadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.torontograffiti.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070820/dffbdc98851b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beautytechcommunity.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871864/lifoxopuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.celestial.astrosfam.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856454/bevawar_kirub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijawupun.transformationalastrologyandtarot.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681862/7fe904380c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lashedbyred.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775520/vabuzazito.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/abbf3de2-9276-4689-a11a-d1daf4239659/letisibikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fab2aa88-cf0e-41a6-b9ee-759ea47a73cc/wosekifovonones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8156e8e0-6f27-4c3e-a13a-0003a215feee/11134900027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f137d3c-c32e-46b4-9834-65e2d1e39ba3/43207222881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88fd0d4a-fef4-439b-b51d-db61e23aca59/3333349866.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_off0000711f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x711F 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 8ff30e3262e38d2252fd671f7dd1ce938050aacbab92e7852d5e01b45d10a7e7
font_01_sfnt_off000082a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82A3 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 0b3c279b702ee9576e4d69c7f0c9d6a494b3665970c1fc79946da0d663305915