Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 141e08e78e7adbde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 10:37:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ed7b54d66792a9ecd7d0b51f689a0cde SHA-1: 7870258774e7c13fe5b6c1e4a3d087a23765cff8 SHA-256: 141e08e78e7adbde70604fd78b36a70cbb164aa5a6e2c5953f3595af5bd03c6a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with at least one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and other PDF links.

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=cherries+dietary+information
    • http://files.jeecontentandcopy.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969939/sozafevupezifobiz.pdf
    • http://files.lifeandlemonsboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438432/4e9ca0f6c99.pdf
    • http://vetiz.simonesmathresources.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384169/d8f6796583b88.pdf
    • http://files.mrstutsmathclass.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968920/fogaro-bubejugu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1596/8667/files/21459064504.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5253/8773/files/chomps_snack_sticks_nutrition_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6676/0856/files/bouwbesluit_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2784/7576/files/causes_of_land_pollution_in_zimbabwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9950/3257/files/jonolutefugosu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56751463133.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8133/4935/files/tipos_de_bypass_gastrico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3364/7525/files/estimation_and_costing_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6966/8517/files/1304275410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8947/7273/files/baccharis_articulata.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_off00006aaf.bin
d99ea809f916fe9de2808593c636eec7caa077aca65c4d23cc68a0557d453306
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AAF 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bf0.bin
a020251fefafafe4fa23208ff588610d7c68aa81b3b5235a99b067a600179b83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BF0 10372 bytes