Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 032c8f51d8875140…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.5 KB Created: 2020-08-28 17:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0da4a64f1af6e1ad5af83dfaf44ac0f6 SHA-1: 04e0ee02a73b6e07548069ec67c26b9ddc7bd9da SHA-256: 032c8f51d887514001433e22b64e8f00e9187e2d2597aa32c1216f7fb288e29a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm and point to a redirector service. This suggests an attempt to obscure malicious destinations and potentially engage in SEO poisoning or traffic redirection. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=round+up+3
    • http://kuzaros.newmantoronto.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383775/62dc19580bb.pdf
    • http://files.thelellowfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740237/b29854ec5.pdf
    • http://files.sfandalusians.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874382/lubiranuj.pdf
    • http://files.kimonodesigns.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815303/9182365.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8721/6293/files/89019603992.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8218/6905/files/the_adventures_of_huckleberry_finn_mark_twain_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6957/8147/files/32000385348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/5352/2600/files/gixunenoto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9969/2958/files/55805695455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6861/4808/files/indore_master_plan_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1720/6949/files/41868497266.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5358/0441/files/24896390073.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8890/files/witcher_3_swamp_thing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4452/7511/files/kafogawegidusebolumoxav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7400/1825/files/salenadagiwareli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8226/1415/files/20386210444.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_off00004662.bin
83b6e7b2df016924348782a2d5f5f07e8b2b6f7959836d3ed4486f614dbbc1f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4662 4608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000562e.bin
976e2eecf506c5e72e7ce1357ffa58b4f562ede45fc54d4db1d1e85031116e5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x562E 9204 bytes