Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 131b8219751822ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-07-26 20:08:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3b0ee25606bcb3c19c4ffc4a74d48022 SHA-1: 64a465539411207f72f72f399451124145560dc9 SHA-256: 131b8219751822bac7932d637a1d5b42801dc99b2cf4b49fd406f3e53b2ffdbe
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one URL pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to medical guidelines, likely a lure. The presence of numerous PDF links suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

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.cc/pify?keyword=sinus+of+valsalva+aneurysm+guidelines
    • http://files.apoiesis.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132711999/magizusukudiveneb.pdf
    • http://files.triplecrownbasketball.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163578/labotabovig.pdf
    • http://files.bettingonasecondchance.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454143/6b8b33e7421.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0868/7269/files/gemuvonefovafom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7247/1718/files/jepogagorakesawire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1013/8017/files/bixuxobogex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7920/5013/files/zonuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1526/6713/files/86881601775.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4100/3432/files/38696474929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6838/3641/files/59638580307.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7197/9171/files/muzibidokiwotukiniviwuler.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2785/6536/files/winufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7829/5450/files/laxafatuzugotavewuten.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6300/0734/files/9533161849.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3932/6365/files/kulijasakidag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0357/4432/files/pujarezananede.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_off000086e5.bin
d5efa61aa75b8d1ce3d7531fbee7c724e57755d92bc56fa2bb51852be6aa456f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86E5 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098cd.bin
6d223895fa0d140076d670d9ec95462097fb086cf9f42deb4755eb21571ff69b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98CD 10108 bytes