Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14ab4eec28af4429…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.3 KB Created: 2020-08-02 21:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ecb050e75ce1d8e639ed1bd4df99f9e4 SHA-1: 380e5c9a762d5404e1f511105123b331eea85a39 SHA-256: 14ab4eec28af4429a59048a85f0617889cc4b04d9fde2fea537069f83baa9398
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the URL and appears to be a lure for a Honda repair manual. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, suggesting a spam or SEO abuse campaign. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=honda+repair+manual
    • http://files.believesfamily.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483097/3964432.pdf
    • http://files.dunphyshandguntraining.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681566/d354c601d.pdf
    • http://files.marapillinger.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407369/kegodifev.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1458/6517/files/gexubakabol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5244/9435/files/82785020543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6240/2967/files/80721618402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7247/1718/files/tonizijalasamav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0688/6051/files/42634790356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9433/4869/files/nidubuvizumuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9560/4891/files/14356873590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1498/7669/files/43349027086.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9904/6553/files/94697121419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/17785553754.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6594/7798/files/20930011171.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_off00009794.bin
e2ffb330c867630c8854003fb29adda5127d45d5a0a93353159669b548aa62fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9794 4888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a815.bin
ec07b51366b1173b336005ac923be0bd4b5d07195cb0c4fbc4293c0d38b31d8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA815 10740 bytes