Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0230ad612145773d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:43:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c2fc0a4da82873b6aa86c609ba627a92 SHA-1: 72066d2e3d9b49035ce67ea5efd048b148529853 SHA-256: 0230ad612145773da2e600169c6055bea13551df6b4071067e50f66047066600
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

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://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=the+human+brain+project+pdf
    • http://files.heavensentchihuahua.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413678/9801299.pdf
    • http://files.leanwithluke.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437930/tipuzusudizuze.pdf
    • http://files.alexwanforatlanta.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738620/wasefiwujiro.pdf
    • http://files.csdbyjessie.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856065/gekawi-sagubefi-dijelejaleza-jeruditu.pdf
    • http://renada.well-estar.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874284/posuwejitipo_kojapekipex_sujuk.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7917/8142/files/might_not_the_weeknd_mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1023/6321/files/80741178582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5481/7690/files/24191318815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6067/4198/files/luguzijusufetezikupuxivut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2023/0564/files/98578765806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1752/7715/files/75608042885.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8704/3496/files/54705168910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3907/2161/files/62780836327.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6477/1238/files/90318285575.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9140/9558/files/damubafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4764/8406/files/94477145961.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d81.bin
67801b4d021ed7f8da013099f33f12718f34700bf59ebb0f4510f5eb4ea6456d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D81 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f84.bin
4952e2d4e8e8878a8d9affe28d7acaeb12baaefb8af01018623f50df5e57f92f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F84 10524 bytes