Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1181eb99de40147c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-07-11 18:44:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: b045f7cad0c6c6bf952bed311bdfe6e5 SHA-1: f410dbf6ea89ecbec6c9ae7fd415de8a8baa5798 SHA-256: 1181eb99de40147c853e3575a3fef5ebd22e41882f2b6d2d99ff63806c72e75f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains multiple embedded links, with a primary redirector identified as malicious. The document body, though obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to lure users with seemingly legitimate document titles. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector confirms the intent to lead users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=original%20jd%20lee%20inorganic%20chemistry%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sweetcheeksphotog.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453749/meron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.avhauling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398479/550cf41cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ucsdspeechanddebate.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815828/vujegitejevebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.autyphotos.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379774/1295896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6856/4380/files/94044952673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41448402009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vibemegabixowosepabotabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butaxir.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/separ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowirew.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/62167605072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonaloz.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/bikogowirawazolenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ponisoxi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/muteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61053474184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/91489653134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jepomosojavadoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7494/5184/files/47871356720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/93336639176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7354/5116/files/musavesupigosipowulituzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7954/1671/files/xiketapovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78046530146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: avhauling.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A98 5560 bytes
SHA-256: 0e6fe7078d1504df81d3a35964afac75e1ecf882ac7d1f917e8275197dcb2dd2
font_01_sfnt_off00007d5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D5E 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 35c4a879df178ba640603ba2e300a8a73fdc12c6f63a72c41eeb2a4c1e9ac417