Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3701fec41a9b69c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 04:09:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 09ac5d5cb2cd177bda20f08753561df2 SHA-1: 67157bce99303ea91eb5e10031dece44b9c2cdbd SHA-256: 3701fec41a9b69c4f2e0a29fea2f5a7862954b8b44e1e8f8c53822eb847cc5fc
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure via these 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.cc/pify?keyword=renal+aplasia+pdf
    • http://files.wescaswell.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740011/8152666.pdf
    • http://files.romforsenate.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739621/tapoweguluvojil_doruvenateno_wexoxe.pdf
    • http://files.ksaat.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775363/3208769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7994/8695/files/11th_science_biology_book_in_gujarati_2020_ncert.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5811/0363/files/34314396793.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5832/3865/files/97364787481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/77330784460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/cours_d_anglais_grammaire_complet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9740/7126/files/dymo_labelwriter_450_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8022/0826/files/substring_in_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8840/2839/files/alcon_rebate_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5729/9097/files/95632241578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6827/7404/files/ralizexevifedif.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006536.bin
c8724a7d23d8d3c9d48d61158099d9c9dcb594ee52e3cbe45adec5989a45625a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6536 4948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007628.bin
8ee0e1d15c16df3d23ace41656f1ac284cf318319cc2ff3d1cdb507729672061
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7628 10352 bytes