Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 063182fea0ae9e96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 23:17:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7cd0b01e255fe708a336650447c53a1f SHA-1: 05757ad11e2320cd340eb42b14d7ef2190cee68e SHA-256: 063182fea0ae9e962ace07a0e15120c2732983b1f32cf12adddf8da87cc61c5b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, which is designed to lure users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a large number of links to external PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. 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.cc/pify?keyword=facebook++mobile+free
    • http://files.affinitycollective.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438667/5443170.pdf
    • http://luzotuma.couples-eft.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384429/d9877a82a43cf2.pdf
    • http://rorizebi.karenbalonart.studio/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/d0dfc1870738.pdf
    • http://files.danielpsgoh.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873758/7861376.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5339/7654/files/49739361263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6904/0790/files/arch_linux_iso_32_bit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6369/6805/files/sibuxulonimorofidelumigi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5843/8039/files/29381597082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0778/2557/files/lte_capacity_planning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8524/1256/files/50449263563.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0674/6011/files/darth_plagueis_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/negopolikutowuz.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_off000062b2.bin
e89344c9253dd426d07477303d6ec7a6445806a8bc0e5d5017e987b1b3e8c671
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62B2 5008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073aa.bin
c8dc77cd964a63d57a078cc5d546a6fd4ed8fcacde334c7b9a1c574bc42b1a2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73AA 10088 bytes