Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73c6004bfef9bf2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-25 00:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8031cf3ec2a072bf5e47dab9b0a31db5 SHA-1: ceb467d08ab27967b95a1c8399582dabee921b15 SHA-256: 73c6004bfef9bf2ec5d00f11dccd731a05411039312341042ef6f16b4fcda77d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a redirector service, which is a common tactic for distributing malware or leading users to phishing sites. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is designed as a link farm, likely to manipulate search engine results and drive traffic to malicious destinations. The embedded URL points to a redirector that appears to be related to software downloads, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking.

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.cc/pify?keyword=shareit+softonic+free
    • http://files.jessiebeefit.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740250/7295535.pdf
    • http://files.vallancelab.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380504/5890879.pdf
    • http://files.ruanlanihorneparishcouncil.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739806/gepajamezolu_xezuxoxawuna.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/1999/files/sebeximesanuxede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5823/3493/files/mh_cet_law_2020_previous_year_question_papers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4158/5314/files/dieta_cetogenica_argentina_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3696/5026/files/gujixutewo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7749/3146/files/29056410771.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81108552740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9120/5021/files/aluminum_properties_and_physical_metallurgy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8755/1893/files/arabic_mehndi_photos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zipepatijexozuzazes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3863/8241/files/37727911805.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_off000053aa.bin
716c5c81e7187915c81b507070e06cc5f7b9b65e275deb8f3aef5a84cda947af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53AA 5040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064bd.bin
71e684b1d6d8ffb7d26a5c725924cfb76c6d9f7f41320ce158e1ffb56ba1ca25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64BD 9528 bytes