Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 144591a2e338a362…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-07-10 11:39:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 0d944316c3071a41cf7d9986f6fc238a SHA-1: 1c6d068152e699fed5d8e9917a2c57d7a1edf465 SHA-256: 144591a2e338a36295887de69939f700785369aa6dbf496bea231cf7fc010dbd
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. One URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=uv%20spectrophotometer%20calibration%20pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/wb?keyword=uv%20spectrophotometer%20calibration%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.firewiseconsultants.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380467/8300795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coxautoroadtrip.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873893/bepugugidalega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lashedbyred.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775520/vabuzazito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beachtownrattan.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871786/bab71b83868b4fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.daisysrdc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814279/sixarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arelationshipcounselingcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738887/58e9bbfb9ce10d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.qcc.nyc/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453526/236589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artsmartmanila.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856041/9477478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.unclutteredessentialoils.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683088/kimatom-nomesofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lindyjames-christenson.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/3953267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.angelicastrologymagic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383959/6162fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://gidurum.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/66954528583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwuvot.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/79492515775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darewubuj.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/gubibowemivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sazemod.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/19519115101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pitimonuzoxa.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/wiruverevavulesikezasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gutelum.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/86124667545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tadigepulimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/75320426607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lujodegiduwidixerilaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/69901941500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wabodenerevugibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/34888362351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7222 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 80e8492bae9f4b0210ef07548b0e8f1fe27eb161057e8b8e1486d2baf1e0343b
font_01_sfnt_off00008440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8440 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 2c7413fa3072a97e59f5f3e84f97084533987bdb447d4efbbdfc87622a46637f