Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 072319671ce8ea74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 04:57:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fb7161a6e9e63415bd92e712b08d025f SHA-1: 6ad6c26844aca0115e0f18c97af7faae87270ba1 SHA-256: 072319671ce8ea747f4245e7acacd1b55ef6a7799f2bb25edb6abed28cdb9263
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 a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, as indicated by the critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The document body itself contains a URL that leads to a redirector, further supporting the malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=basic+russian+pdf
    • http://files.greatwhiteninja.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636946/nowur-zobosuw-jimovutamoweji-pekigafis.pdf
    • http://wamanu.nicolekejiawu.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302921/1533996.pdf
    • http://files.dixielandbulldogges.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438501/222066.pdf
    • http://files.liskigroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637409/9522854.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0956/3045/files/linux_for_programmers_and_users.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6174/7620/files/zugaxafar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6165/8279/files/wukaniseg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5286/7494/files/dibosanisijimigat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6857/1294/files/56106680017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8107/0747/files/cittadinanza_e_costituzione.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4891/9450/files/71544739969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8671/6830/files/simple_appointment_letter_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3532/8663/files/21610420852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2479/3245/files/storm_brigid_kemmerer_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3477/7499/files/zafifetetapenopibodu.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_off00006d7a.bin
943c0046363c0907c96b1d57b9dc1047e07c2270858df5f345a4c924597a79f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D7A 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f1d.bin
d6e1740e1c290c3cadade9bcb76ceca26c38e83a33cc2094f8c9301351b724cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F1D 9788 bytes