Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61790dce46fdc02d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-07-25 10:52:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f27c1ba0c78c86cf74a7ed321a4b5925 SHA-1: 39e437ec790577c52b07f9c99030faeebe9c7171 SHA-256: 61790dce46fdc02dbbbfd4e2c2843b50b093f542791e034eaa306dbb15164d9c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its user-facing content, but the presence of a malicious redirector and link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to harmful sites.

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.ru/pify?keyword=present+indicative+of+regular+verbs+worksheet+answers
    • http://files.imobilerepairz.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070539/2004047.pdf
    • http://files.scottcountyfasttrack.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681378/7730934.pdf
    • http://files.eswut.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606874/nafenatizetuxunivix.pdf
    • http://files.360signs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874482/546569.pdf
    • http://files.westech-rides.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695574/kakuxefozexavax_kajakapak_jofoxobavis.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9476/1877/files/duzubap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6770/3457/files/xujali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4442/2310/files/burivekakez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1336/6182/files/tisebape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1177/6416/files/17918047242.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4393/files/zigusex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1112/1057/files/83558769836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9726/0192/files/xujezisobezamusug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0925/1227/files/jagemarelekibazixupu.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_off00005d56.bin
9475cbd02c13be3483a9ca0e3a84eb9569ef63605ab51ebdd42f16aeba89c5db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D56 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007022.bin
8dfe40c8b87cca2e44b1f2a52d07e78c78d61a4dc43c56ad8c02fab6b4f18d85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7022 10124 bytes