Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 672bd23ad212daf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 00:15:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 74765a7cbd2cf06856e69da9ec4f2534 SHA-1: 85358f930c2e4b740c1468ca734b8be03ecd46df SHA-256: 672bd23ad212daf74d68e567174623dfd884b2a0ae601d93f0f1495d917f3008
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic findings indicate a PDF link farm and a high ML score for maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that mirrors the malicious redirector's target. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external resources, potentially for further exploitation or to serve 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.ru/pify?keyword=microeconomics+goolsbee+levitt+syverson+pdf
    • http://files.thewolfofwaverlyplace.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164446/f0be5e3ad0.pdf
    • http://files.octobermoon.shop/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482886/43ee0ee9bb3d7.pdf
    • http://files.mcnamaragypsies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775126/4886570.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1958/4166/files/50454966499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1311/9905/files/41554850452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5086/8646/files/78485664140.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0265/8979/files/wixefapovivokuwavelot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4288/2215/files/96265091805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0904/7717/files/56248615377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1112/files/tofik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0821/2638/files/sufafafaxadafuloji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sopituwoxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1991/0811/files/3668254731.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_off000042cc.bin
1b0a46525d1d0dfb23b535d287bcff573f92de17c95d342a09d4c0407c8eda1f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42CC 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055c1.bin
3d7cabd0e6a011d93b1f630b8f1f1111a1af197c5fe06f467193269c3e7870bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55C1 9340 bytes