Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 708b7b43b8ae36ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:42:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4de7c571fba4c12288402b0d611170e2 SHA-1: 0e299e7486e8e45d9f5955c8002ec8203c91a0aa SHA-256: 708b7b43b8ae36ea6cdda2b87747aa405711803f6e27ac1e96deb1edef602098
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a Vodafone router manual, aiming to lure users to a potentially harmful website. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious intent to distribute further content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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.com/pify?keyword=vodafone+mobile+wifi+router+manual
    • http://tememe.manndiblecafe.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/bccedd39b.pdf
    • http://pinuwu.tibblekigers.se/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/1520512.pdf
    • http://files.banyan-consulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437736/559501.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1855/9393/files/mezokasi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0019/files/difference_between_cardiac_asthma_and_bronchial_asthma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8281/3341/files/36138807120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/32377204601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4302/8120/files/tagipufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7751/0055/files/aadhar_card_form_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6625/3724/files/fidanegugomonuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4028/4577/files/51334317332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1307/8168/files/w20_werewolf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/datofugilasififuko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6785/0390/files/21404374401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5199/0691/files/system_out_println.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3453/files/appsc_group_2_syllabus_telugu.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_off00004681.bin
2c8f8a81296246329254779ac68dca38bedf681aeb3add20c10c10d7af5a31b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4681 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057bd.bin
af4b006223e368e7fdea6b41e67a3d41183c4bf307312bc5d011d5f33d0f21de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57BD 9724 bytes