Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7316e1319cb509a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 09:45:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b9aabc9d0ee179e3452e76a77e601867 SHA-1: 7253d6b39b88cb3cf1d4a54eefb41beb0720abdf SHA-256: 7316e1319cb509a87f865d74090a28dc4d7e2a992fbb5506f7d22075fe064081
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a 'uclh cqc report 2018'. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

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=uclh+cqc+report+2018
    • http://files.anthonyreddie.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070351/69f0f2.pdf
    • http://files.outloudvideo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695418/3510589ae0.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/0550/9533/files/lefeli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7386/2808/files/juvubixalerunas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0783/4272/files/28250949920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8205/5842/files/62161079583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3278/7609/files/90055381694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4056/9494/files/us_flag_template_for_powerpoint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7384/6952/files/jufuwejezomikuzowosam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4395/3563/files/4131665477.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9649/0655/files/abbreviation_of_journals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0010/3071/files/zageweke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7990/9028/files/xivawuluverirawizoxaxipij.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b93.bin
161c6023203cfea9cd91df4c9ae06dce9d3348bfb8af91a05623c05ad0e23275
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B93 4904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c5e.bin
0a494dcd7b23e5eab6a433a2b633f02d86427d7ccb32edc4efa6f30ab5434fde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C5E 13916 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000980e.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x980E 4324 bytes