Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18070fff70e27aab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 10:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 59e6177cc17e343b5188129fd1cb7404 SHA-1: 25e56acc4379d2492a8b082f94d167d8bddfff5d SHA-256: 18070fff70e27aab4e4a96cbda5c0d286718dcdac8fb5112632a9478cc6b9014
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to an 'ecological economics book pdf'. The presence of many external links, including to benign Shopify URLs, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=ecological+economics+book+pdf
    • http://roser.insightcounsellingtoronto.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131414661/boregetunajilulod.pdf
    • http://files.customdvs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874485/xeduverefidake.pdf
    • http://files.thebeaverindustries.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740814/xoxarizexamad.pdf
    • http://nulawa.workbyronjohnson.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696414/3227551.pdf
    • http://files.gpvaniermusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070317/doletube.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0704/9877/files/boosting_self_esteem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6659/7269/files/apush_period_2_key_concepts_review_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7702/5446/files/98630926285.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7027/5237/files/asciidoctor-_toc_macro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/5288/7190/files/ncert_class_11_biology_anatomy_of_flowering_plants.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8151/2613/files/ashirwad_mantra_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5272/0543/files/54361902819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9472/1187/files/75957293005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8205/5842/files/dawoodi_bohra_topi_design.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_off00005c5a.bin
adc7e64f24ca9a04c8e3c2032d399352a0e2e8b91f66dfae43078e2a3a2da967
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C5A 5540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f1e.bin
9a28ff3b442f68a5179a23bd5cb63243a27b91afb815152eb93284c4da2c1233
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F1E 9772 bytes