Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6141973007028a47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-02 14:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3700ceef1f0555e959a8a947a4eac568 SHA-1: ab26800c7da5462a3d592f490df9e5cd2ae48bb9 SHA-256: 6141973007028a4735d3d779232fafd68e29761f25d64eed74688e88091831ee
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One prominent link directs to a known malicious redirector, disguised with a search query for "turn off screensaver windows 10". The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves luring users to malicious infrastructure via embedded 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.com/pify?keyword=turn+off+screensaver+windows+10
    • http://files.henestrosastudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607467/nitokaxataz.pdf
    • http://files.nudnikdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438418/841a7.pdf
    • http://files.lithgowagedcareltd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775116/gevelugotuvano-setavuwefiwi-deloxiwafud-nuzepenexelapa.pdf
    • http://files.yieldproagronomyllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813899/21e4c00ab6e827.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pajovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8300/5093/files/72912747077.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/55378763690.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1871/4264/files/56617349921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/magobusiriwolozun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5943/0047/files/tumorozixivip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3557/4943/files/gojoriwatabifoban.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5461/9041/files/37235319124.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87899810879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1080/9256/files/96989597353.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_off0000762e.bin
8ae1f0252125d8bf7c49f710098761aa72c1e309b87df658132f899cc30ffd13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x762E 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000884b.bin
3b4f743197c7a1fc023a98c2b906e4108a169fe97c3df54491df8da87f013545
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x884B 10512 bytes