Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1290b60419e13d5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-18 18:10:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 02d1bbce686efcd29a183e7bf3f11269 SHA-1: d61181c163f63af3b2967bfe534bb82cddf4cbfc SHA-256: 1290b60419e13d5d75f1bb541a076d162a31607dc867531c743fb3ae8eeb22ce
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 redirector infrastructure or SEO link farms. The document body text, though partially obfuscated, includes a URL that is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary goal is to direct users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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=car+accident+reports+san+antonio
    • http://files.cofcmesabibletruths.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872298/c46e2b.pdf
    • http://potuf.adibezalel.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813330/bimugegifaxebim_dovexajaremalad.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7963/9967/files/xosalifagudopetigejapopi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2598/7734/files/telorojitodifusenefagew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3000/3358/files/matavibuverusidedupefani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9442/4232/files/leraredasoxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0324/7781/files/70620014478.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0380/3808/files/minecraft_desert_city.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1746/9086/files/xabomexidasogopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9339/3557/files/zemowulijelokud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5797/0328/files/61155268928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3952/1959/files/wikogawugudamipulibigadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9485/2252/files/44192887642.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_off000061b4.bin
757841c37a89870ba7d7213320a27c0cddb32e982d25eb86937fc67f9598f550
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61B4 4940 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007289.bin
12c1d0d632497ae93b3a38fd80f749df928ecdbba3859a23040e76350da313e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7289 14688 bytes