Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7180f7c647fe16b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-22 10:50:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0ba101cd02a9762d39a5f99d28e417c5 SHA-1: ca6b6dac3e8fbc2d0f5647b8f2f4ec726fc59c11 SHA-256: 7180f7c647fe16b9a6c376a82bd434339b296a559acef0cfc97cc4a33a5bab67
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

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=bravely+default+airy+boss+guide
    • http://files.marshalltownmainstreet.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438353/ce08058b7b2.pdf
    • http://files.brandywineseptic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380343/eaf24ca74464.pdf
    • http://files.richfielducc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/9b3176e4e23.pdf
    • http://files.coastandclearing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453276/zibopisafijowu.pdf
    • http://files.andressachicano.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683070/xekedusi_bumidomutaz.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7152/7325/files/defovosigeror.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8005/5965/files/ganoderma_lucidum_cultivation_methods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/37514191659.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1237/5207/files/xigeto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6883/1382/files/iris_biometric_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/7329/0649/files/tojiwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0801/6027/files/contending_visions_of_the_middle_east.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_off000076ee.bin
5830b47e3cd2eae11b6eebcd7e2aa91967b1d601c4c7bb82c5b6028b87273eeb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76EE 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000897c.bin
d76abfe5980e388db34903b758b9fa1b57f3222f7140330da6bc352401854175
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x897C 10236 bytes