Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1245e042fa25a2ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:58:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b1bf2317446d2a789e63594db2385820 SHA-1: 63d6ca93390ebd129f4c6ec4c2bbfeeb75fd1d4d SHA-256: 1245e042fa25a2ab5e815029e8836f6d05e92cc068a991bac823515267f503dd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, includes a URL that appears to be the same as the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to host a link farm, likely for SEO poisoning or redirecting users to malicious sites.

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=areas+sensoriales+de+la+corteza+cerebral+pdf
    • http://fodar.louisianactf.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969858/af42658bd7b6.pdf
    • http://fivaj.whakamaramaschool.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682892/zefibe.pdf
    • http://files.stjohnclare.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164460/biwesuf_nenabesunu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4253/6604/files/doviwin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1247/8360/files/piratolalapuzutised.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3915/2535/files/dixututisusuxudimaruma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1631/4277/files/69545668161.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0158/5570/files/waxewowidapaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5227/7670/files/78845122509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/1999/files/bubulubole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8578/3447/files/android_close_keyboard.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2327/0042/files/sebakamosisego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2513/6792/files/78480586405.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8150/7740/files/mazoxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5180/9957/files/bamexidarigemivolejijufuj.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_off0000bf20.bin
36ac73473087b1b8d74cc2ab7c5dd73dbce8b958a603012100d883ba96ab62f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF20 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d14d.bin
183741d93627ea7fc0e20b953b6c3ac08fd2bfc8620d361c8ed22b2df1109688
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD14D 10236 bytes