Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 083a67a777efd7c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.4 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:11:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c7e6cb2a4c8260536a94d0e45323a71f SHA-1: beb9e16442f814bf6facbfede5cc7fed8dd63586 SHA-256: 083a67a777efd7c01f4cddbc6abd205becbb17ed9c9634f6cd818fae32d491bd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute spam. 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.com/pify?keyword=loud+sound+alarm+tone
    • http://files.cfhsperformingarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969830/4446236.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4893/4295/files/30050710040.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8524/1256/files/chapter_3_quantitative_research.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8808/5143/files/27294449724.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1211/8952/files/69170891104.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51730359377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9582/6336/files/netonozorokemerexuri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8305/5782/files/gazadig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5183/5801/files/captains_of_crush_training_program.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3567/0166/files/92164909920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9128/7461/files/evil_dead_ii_parents_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9812/1119/files/sadewuwifaxi.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_off00004521.bin
ded32170f3d030cd95811426c82548e8d8b0c3859773afe9f4d57c005f3367a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4521 4912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055b7.bin
1f75b7d058f62885209f330d9c5b3213bdd5576f28bc44a0cfeeaabe9fffee73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55B7 10388 bytes