Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 158e6458b3fba909…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 18:29:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c442b7774169be76e55126fa008747bf SHA-1: 2baee561c8c83de7185e45e01a3a3003b0f571a2 SHA-256: 158e6458b3fba9096024502c3b639c1cc4fb7130896842553b04dcd532d9c86a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDFs, which is indicative of a link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=eduardo%20garcia%20maynez%20libros%20pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 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.com/wb?keyword=eduardo%20garcia%20maynez%20libros%20pdf
    • http://files.junkim666.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856318/davude_wuxuzokimilu_pepuwovad.pdf
    • http://files.spencerscustomwood.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681884/fakedemetiwojezad.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2041/7181/files/marketing_strategies_for_agricultural_products.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9526/1348/files/delukaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0917/1879/files/zozevupoxunokelanezugul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3848/1311/files/wind_dragon_summoners_war.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2696/4895/files/4348936149.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/porovurujapiganipuzul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5693/8658/files/writing_inequalities_from_word_problems_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0484/5465/files/94861591937.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6137/9221/files/nokowatiwevivubopave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8454/files/35982621609.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_off00005ef5.bin
f1afd9e0321648bf38622adf4a8f10672e047c37cd38681425cb9dd91fc0a394
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EF5 5724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007265.bin
3a3e647c7c923b265616745fee2a78ae6d072a9b80fd1c2bb51ecc4406881bc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7265 15868 bytes