Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 705fa69f9a619bb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:24:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0779cb1d1e6807d108a0a5d51e99f0f8 SHA-1: f958b0810dbb316ba772cfa0198ca3b408d4e720 SHA-256: 705fa69f9a619bb8b31c615c9515f86cb785a7e2095caa63870bfe5c024764b7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is identified as malicious. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's part of a link farm for SEO manipulation or malicious redirection.

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/wix?keyword=etapas+de+proceso+enfermero
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2c20278505c14891a2e7a81577fb5f91.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d2cc1f_f28d80f43cc34d5f966cff1ebc744657.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_55c95d7425094209b1bd0b0057209363.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10e3af_e9059f5789674d44b2597f0758bf5440.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/merosiletulomefil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9636/7511/files/canadian_idiot_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/antenna_theory_and_design_2nd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9684/2142/files/17164417734.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8832/1443/files/buick_enclave_reviews_2011_consumer_reports.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2356/3925/files/60618474554.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9127/0563/files/gunajufebar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/93016620893.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_off000057c2.bin
934306105ba3a511a3a123c09a38c86d018116e7f0d04aca2e6a3950899b9b12
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57C2 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006973.bin
f7fd083d15beda7ae855593db3d29cb6b27b3228d25d11946c560a6f28758b1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6973 10296 bytes