Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03101894ea430708…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:24:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10fa8ea89aeb4ce0a4071c94beb67b4b SHA-1: 3213a518012f973a542c8bbb87d9214864512f82 SHA-256: 03101894ea4307080507fb2008eb6a7958ee62c66e5c24c9c90c984686fdc37d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text related to 'neoliberalismo en mexico exito o fracaso pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs suggests an attempt to disguise the malicious link within a large number of seemingly legitimate ones.

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.cc/pify?keyword=neoliberalismo+en+mexico+exito+o+fracaso+pdf
    • http://files.brianmoskin.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969209/ramafutap-sinorex.pdf
    • http://files.safgeorgia.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383657/9ade64089c4a30.pdf
    • http://files.greenaccountingservices.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454114/efd0ff7ce2a675.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7256/0031/files/wawiruvuxowebit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9961/9492/files/ssc_gk_capsule_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7352/files/54771671037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38608120386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2468/7014/files/lowes_brunswick_ga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8558/6849/files/26199160999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3293/6605/files/92881260637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2604/6362/files/atriplex_canescens.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7968/7574/files/98317162252.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8316/9943/files/93797880620.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8373/files/wobodixedufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5275/files/degunezatodudebivuzulinis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1899/3307/files/4871338366.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_off00006599.bin
3d1fe3b3f4a4ba7c5cbe014de2c236d47579941fcf595860571dfa295f74f352
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6599 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007823.bin
64df314d3398dcbdfd3195f11c155592f79e96ae87f1d6d973a1bb134f0e30bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7823 11616 bytes