Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17a4f7f3b291bf64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2020-07-21 08:20:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: ec9b87fbe3442ee0425dd393bb1ed128 SHA-1: 3e762878ff6b1b3b371f0d03e2ddca51866a5c6b SHA-256: 17a4f7f3b291bf641b8ea6fba039e4b44d37771740ab4dd334c2186fedd6229b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'surfactant pulmonar pdf'. The presence of many external PDF links, including those hosted on Shopify, points towards an SEO link farm strategy to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary threat.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=indicaciones%20de%20surfactante%20pulmonar%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mauisreef.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740637/lijukibakubeve_wusevewol_xusevojekew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.msseniornyecounty.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438528/8184698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.behuninvocalstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968994/2496227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tandesoleilmorrobay.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775655/pumagesive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9930/7678/files/gazeririgeduwabifopoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8189/9944/files/kudoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kemisavixazesunomezixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/gonobovojapemelawusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8670/8889/files/pewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welibawone.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/17555937066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zunuxav.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/23358756132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momunijubu866698461.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/vomuvinumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://figodop.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/76502322667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/xovimumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tefukina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5733/0853/files/wivaxuwuzibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8712/5927/files/rupolabupejedipopav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8118/8003/files/23824465910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kevesuladufutaniwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/lowosizozo.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_off000099ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99ED 5120 bytes
SHA-256: e46c47126a72f1bdef9a436a06b9144028ac598b97af8fad1bcf01518408082b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ab32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB32 10760 bytes
SHA-256: da20ee53213db55d454bf59b74ce6f057b85eec1b95e8378dad86332c2ff7234