Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48fea43c064b8777…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-07-15 12:14:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-07
MD5: 466c084ebcc99a0562222eabe1550297 SHA-1: aebe328ee9bbe8e7e32987282bb011c68ca794d4 SHA-256: 48fea43c064b8777abf0ac0b8d05dd0bfc16c4c373b64deca3fce18d2ccb6bb8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it contains links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic fired, revealing a mass of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to potentially harmful content. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, likely serving as the initial vector for further malicious activity.

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.cc/wb?keyword=mark%20twain%20the%20celebrated%20jumping%20frog%20of%20calaveras%20county%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.savcufflinks.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871891/puziledekowuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.professionalcapitalpartners.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438766/4121815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.entrepreneurialnegotiation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379709/2580595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christopherlewis.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398291/5301a9dc7f56310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pioneerclaytargetclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437123/tonew-repuzedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.galenejackson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437308/6145753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rnbreptiles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452806/5780847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://paramudeba.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/84611806861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pusetojax.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zozasawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rofudenubo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/begedupivutisub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://josikib.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/69703949301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3301/files/lerofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wowivitotorinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7302/7749/files/73176008535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8886/2614/files/gekotalunogorefopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bagubiginapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7829/5450/files/86012914964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/18983443830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/marifurozijuzaledenikegi.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_off000077cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77CD 5992 bytes
SHA-256: ee6a71d7610df6c9acc2dc485a2e7e7b0f003de10c1cbe6affa43df7b71d4ac7
font_01_sfnt_off00008c22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C22 10392 bytes
SHA-256: fdd563c4cea418427ed4424ec6661081d4e442595ac9db50047418b7935b0744