Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 649707bba3a8961d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.6 KB Created: 2020-08-16 16:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b366f7675fe2f31e1a8660cbbe59322a SHA-1: d8e88b4d613a658bf0ed2817daec0cef5d0089d8 SHA-256: 649707bba3a8961d54c2b5e9b6139e360d1c99b6b232a9a605cec73de8438ff2
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded links that are part of a link farm, with one critical link pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'definition of retail management pdf' and a URL that appears to be the same as the malicious redirector. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt where the user is tricked into clicking a link under the guise of legitimate content.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=definition+of+retail+management+pdf
    • http://files.indexid.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606360/rejakawixoxiw.pdf
    • http://files.brownwoodlyrictheatre.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712508/50fa4c2.pdf
    • http://files.yoshikoarahata.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856531/wudaziduf-lavelewif.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8389/0850/files/bawebux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4584/6168/files/satuxelukukanifokanedo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3293/6605/files/49021936572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7108/5475/files/krishna_yajur_veda_brahmana_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2900/3416/files/pivikaxopab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2591/4262/files/ielts_fever_reading.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1401/0518/files/1._7._10_city_maps.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0837/6482/files/60237195993.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_off0000b148.bin
12d86312e1a107c426454b2a483bd923152d2077405b1e75f12cb68759a05592
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB148 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c2d2.bin
436c3cdf0fc595b6a422ae61af4936d2e1d7abf5ceae867caa17b270f3afa61d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2D2 10100 bytes