Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73bd74df38217bfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 14:17:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 16477f42c50d591b2bd75e9c2d2c8c23 SHA-1: 31d038f93329fb32bd554f7dbd9ba6bd0053ac17 SHA-256: 73bd74df38217bfafe94ff828355cfeaae4df26edaeaad49beed56e5f9ef9706
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain the same redirector URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content.

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=hemoptysis+guidelines+chest
    • http://files.whisperingdoveranch.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637131/2567431.pdf
    • http://files.jacobmarkstaffin.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164452/sujafita.pdf
    • http://tolak.blackriverfundraising.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606260/gepup.pdf
    • http://files.wanderlustnwcatering.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452800/dimawavabobuxida.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6150/2374/files/misiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5442/3464/files/hinder_get_stoned.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1606/1091/files/java_calendar_set_time_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0076/5348/files/linev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6663/9014/files/zivam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2486/5685/files/wafifewagumetikovanoluv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4627/9080/files/balancing_equations_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5647/1970/files/wastewater_treatment_process_flow_diagram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0033/8331/files/79262943012.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_off000078e3.bin
4b5664c624ddbb58ac05c0614fe4bf35bbf7bbc94c30de816c8de107274964ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E3 5244 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a9a.bin
48ab82f4d13eec6e7b14a0da8d9fc92e46d3b00237a952f900698713aafbecbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A9A 15424 bytes