Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14aa30224693239a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 01:57:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2f65a22fb653257a07a9d983e62b2af0 SHA-1: 1c84f3f5a0b903380cd11b3f3424a86dbfc475fc SHA-256: 14aa30224693239a58ba048993aa9f000d53ba9e69a3564d8c9b1ddd2c0af3fe
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and benign-looking PDF filenames, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt.

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=journal+of+pediatric+hematology+oncology+case+report
    • http://kitopizif.arthurassociates.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452821/a9e81.pdf
    • http://files.asiacontentmarketing.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871433/luvisudawemoxe.pdf
    • http://romaruver.dominicjwalsh.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637836/3878a.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/79959845821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2866/6785/files/novela_el_alferez_real.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5325/9679/files/nuzufovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0167/5939/files/bolt_torque_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2964/0854/files/arvind_gupta_toys_from_trash.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0154/4863/files/730280546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0687/0183/files/45535308909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7373/2768/files/koxisol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3024/8600/files/fazisig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9167/3763/files/webudetokevoreja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8573/9685/files/tripartite_soul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/podufa.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_off00006699.bin
edc173f818b69e7f30c966403443ed889e738cb42a4b94683665380e238e5a74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6699 5660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079b8.bin
80723902e715618f55eecb9d1fcbbfebed84e04e21ca2fa4d16881c6b80ed66b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79B8 9944 bytes