Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72ed119413348a4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 14:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39c7f00b1a7e5b73e08d079a5e378ad2 SHA-1: 0d44e7054769d82b403441fc541bf0467f31d28c SHA-256: 72ed119413348a4b9c0f7c45fb0c776429e7ae99834e4e6fa7e3cbea06cc8b2d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics, reinforcing the malicious redirector finding.

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=libro+arqueologia+del+saber+pdf
    • http://files.capriliciousjewellery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738801/9c8adf6845fb.pdf
    • http://files.venusevanswinters.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813885/xadapiru.pdf
    • http://files.knightprideproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969663/kudugujob.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/44245077082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5804/3797/files/webmd_portion_size_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7927/9527/files/moxulitijizupub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4484/8295/files/5945610343.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5034/4352/files/datacion_carbono_14.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9476/1877/files/creative_writing_module.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3087/9136/files/big_bang_theory_essay.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0876/1764/files/61220144669.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/duzawubemamomavokam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7473/8593/files/gregor_the_overlander.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9578/5629/files/70851008879.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_off00005908.bin
3ce30a41ce1cbb67e467b8c45789ce3b90863dddf907081d647387273becc823
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5908 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b70.bin
210b739459b23d951ea629daee9466fa75754eaac6500a129e1f4a9545c59fb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B70 13856 bytes