Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 702b0d35492997db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 22:53:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dc4cd0e684f8dd82ba17ba6224306810 SHA-1: 7c5249a9db79a4e7d92411a1acb87ecc5caad54a SHA-256: 702b0d35492997db50860042cf6c0f5c70b9fadf2ab1c3fd0b46947da964275b
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of this lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search results or distribute malicious 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wb?keyword=nda%20exam%20paper%202016%20pdf
    • http://bekagoka.susan-mcmahan.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969744/3645556.pdf
    • http://zexinem.scenealongtheway.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871796/d5ec9692ea66.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5763/5735/files/77687137018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38030937597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4146/5244/files/8959695399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5391/6060/files/alphabet_hebreux_traduit_en_francais.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7709/9935/files/67329872125.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0090/5373/files/clicker_heroes_browser_cheat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mosagewenusuwaguxizekud.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_off000058a3.bin
9f6355313556e5f83880917dfe76c3d50b5a94a614c22ba6f09f56d67916cfe3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58A3 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b57.bin
e9471160369bd46ad27a20e5cdf60508f7e39ed681f113f2e101f8be7c6a2ea4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B57 10152 bytes