Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 719fb8a7da4279fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.4 KB Created: 2020-08-24 04:55:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 41f3815271b1faa987070c9ea08249b2 SHA-1: 28c06ad6c4aea4bb2b6bbe9ce3ba8ebd46d1f036 SHA-256: 719fb8a7da4279fd4799f7cfe3beacab1b266adedd925ce8f4b71818212d965f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristics confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm.

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=broaching+machine+pdf
    • http://nukora.muhammadak5514.greatwebsitebuilder.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/ruvuz.pdf
    • http://files.fightnightblog.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382470/xejusovipokubiweri.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7202/8833/files/gahanna_police_department_reports.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0044/7655/files/73491780977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8379/2533/files/2931653338.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1376/6296/files/24887031752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7122/6534/files/frc_safety_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6976/files/24790114572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7879/4917/files/beth_moore_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4673/9878/files/99031317560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0108/5082/files/adelaide_showbag_guide_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2675/1389/files/kizobodapiso.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000947c.bin
259df8b14303c4cc90f30f7f93dcc36474cb90b50a5e10876ee88ded65be1f8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x947C 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a6ab.bin
6c80730bf03f025b997cd6b2fec236023a13a1b6ff63fc42603ee7f1e4ff6bb6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6AB 10664 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000cb45.bin
13596defb2bcc6fc1048af8e1a4b019015f57a35384aba88f9e1637b8f94b635
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB45 16168 bytes