Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fa7c15fe7db9aa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 15:19:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: faa23ebd8c8ecd12c281b1713833c540 SHA-1: 8dd246be5e73eb2fe15fae30a6aae8ee06b1c68d SHA-256: 5fa7c15fe7db9aa33e6f71d824e76772f029b549f286e1418cbc42e3f5f93e74
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link farm and a redirector to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body appears to be malformed or obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content.

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=definicion+autoestima+psicologia+pdf
    • http://files.lochgoin.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607239/gutexal.pdf
    • http://files.greenharboryc.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070826/3516765.pdf
    • http://files.persimmonalleypress.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739991/zopov_gavim.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0252/7895/files/betetuxiguverixumuzapuke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/71691251088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7440/5020/files/68920794535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0982/6213/files/71288841418.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8370/3206/files/sixumaxev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8127/7342/files/27469600392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6443/3566/files/13873470312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8047/4014/files/53078113072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5949/5590/files/zasalagewobovajezotubik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0304/4263/files/boxodoguten.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5498/0505/files/74382966923.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_off0000a657.bin
fb5ba86e32bc6348f41c64926e3195360e0163be3d48548cf6b9a0cd44cf1888
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA657 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b8a1.bin
030fcfd51825503b2a837e6927c8cdfc5a193e4aea4f6e24a25658a6cc7ed889
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8A1 11032 bytes