Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 140934b7f3f9bc1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 01:32:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f2fd3c725dc83066a8e60ed94ae5b95d SHA-1: 3554b858f3e75476883317f481b3f9a3d34bc55f SHA-256: 140934b7f3f9bc1ac0d0c7b0ea396d975e234bb4f4a1ec084a7057b77ad373b8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with the primary link directing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the heuristic firings indicate it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to harmful sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise its true purpose.

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=atharva+veda+pdf+in+marathi
    • http://tobuvixi.voiceofhoperct.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682076/48bdcf4e2cc16e2.pdf
    • http://wezelid.iaqinspect.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483453/4450044.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6653/0728/files/49572165375.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8475/9711/files/child_education_allowance_form_dopt.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8105/6935/files/86448271840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1344/6564/files/convert_to_word_on_ipad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2825/0781/files/91943082236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8967/7736/files/pidojedopidisumoxoden.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4104/7206/files/judakorizozag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3431/8760/files/pokonopupad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3277/5589/files/time_in_pst_now.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9927/3896/files/73302945994.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3177/0789/files/54230550565.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_off00005af5.bin
a5775d642c8ef49b02b7ed71274326c2d4ac3359971bd8cb7dc40b10d06b58be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AF5 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c40.bin
067361a62d994ad055c8de6ccd6cbfe669c422a854b67e935f2249a67a058b8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C40 10228 bytes