Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 041efcf225bccd5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 14:25:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aed93b85c9a16f60bfa2f000769119b3 SHA-1: bbf752f98919203f14f4fd30b757bf68eee8088f SHA-256: 041efcf225bccd5bf3b3b78b7954bcd975581eccb4eb288ea14ef138fea62ee8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a redirector link suggests an attempt to lead the user to a harmful site. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm indicates a phishing or SEO poisoning attack.

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=administracion+publica+pdf+colombia
    • http://suxewekob.jessicastockton.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/vexapojek.pdf
    • http://files.gretaggc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739059/wobuwamelaw_kugaledo_lasapegenuni.pdf
    • http://files.whollysimcha.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776401/kudakinokot-bubiza-sodozi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5736/2597/files/child_care_leave_format_in_rajasthan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9477/files/9671859062.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3452/5347/files/84700476589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4431/5029/files/tujovageduz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1991/7719/files/88996974582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3804/0487/files/1000_palabras_en_ingles_y_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/police_affidavit_form_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3695/8104/files/90109756752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0859/7927/files/87404363566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3180/4574/files/fivali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2677/5196/files/kuwozafet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3165/7624/files/mubadamunigatisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2732/files/gamuvuseganigefeb.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_off00008205.bin
84ef6c6c6150c9e2019321ba90816b24a0a127f4d1b5eac7aeb1a13e85bac475
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8205 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000945d.bin
2a9d85501f9ff05685017211b09b2c1c652745a06841faeef75f22b9e4d2007e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x945D 11472 bytes