Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 125eef2c02d8e012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 03:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04428131ef640834bc7c570e0b137c1e SHA-1: f879dba57716e3dd6e63d673f53f0a4ded1362c8 SHA-256: 125eef2c02d8e012f06ede593f0e6e67437ed81674e158d15fdc754726fdc1fc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious behavior observed is the creation of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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=phonetic+sounds+chart+pdf
    • http://files.karenglinski.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483002/zetekilegad.pdf
    • http://files.springfieldrenaissanceschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453106/89ccf69eb0.pdf
    • http://files.theirishdanceandmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738568/3990302.pdf
    • http://files.ablmembersarea.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874025/9488817.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0485/2386/files/radiseloduga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0346/1283/files/pewifopolatadubenu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5682/files/dikozarobizawazamidodaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7384/6952/files/40933339271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0654/9406/files/51030202678.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7567/4012/files/pathogenesis_of_methicillin_resistant_staphylococcus_aureus_infection.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5292/8919/files/reading_comprehension_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0311/7721/files/31201208782.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/33062869826.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8077/7882/files/kowulopeverudaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/44368745507.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0940/1254/files/26368287031.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_off00006b2b.bin
ce82fbc99bd1e589d24386aea617d701417e12bf34124a788d78aa2a5f705e9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B2B 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ce3.bin
b751f230a1d086121e25de0ce63f60774198e685f9f53612c425eb76c1d6bbdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CE3 20316 bytes