Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ab2ddde05850b3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-07-10 20:51:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: fe5cb88d23bce2c3fa56bf408f3830e3 SHA-1: ae981ef6588bcb125b5f86466656786e737a08e9 SHA-256: 5ab2ddde05850b3c015d4a8296c8b8dee26175a540a45d610d97bc5114d2ec42
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various external PDF files hosted on numerous domains. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that at least one of these URLs leads to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic further suggests the document's purpose is to create a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is largely obfuscated, but the primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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=lista%20de%20referencia%20bradesco%20saude%20empresarial%20rede%20nacional%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.limitlessyourlife.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710638/ecd0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jasminkwan.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453248/kubomerebamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bullengarookadultriders.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681596/fomapofegaro-wopigadazodup-zevevamer-tirexilagenizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rachelmillercalligraphy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813799/vetibikavogumiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kaihongart.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695668/9b6a98b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thehulahut.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695489/386a4086ea0d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nodawayvalleyffa.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438718/8996856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.okraa.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303020/benejodiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ittakestworealestate.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378932/2668602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newawakeningofthechurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873820/6050945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bigoakfarms.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740779/3837921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://legeliwabuki.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/ridujekidufenijotorowijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wofopisuf.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/bipukotimidavutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovimaj.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/26377976721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gefoguvokuru.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/ralexiguvumogakufefaxowol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/50398535586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1381/6995/files/73292489778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nemevisofopanufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/7236632937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/27482348981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/vababoparaneba.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_off00007fad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FAD 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 5e9680c5740c74188cb7757c972a73458f9ccd80428a67128420a50d2bde2507
font_01_sfnt_off00009161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9161 18500 bytes
SHA-256: 778184e0fd02a4e1642900c10f0b44eb55ec6fc679632245118180385765aa33