Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74b16e6079e681fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 19:43:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6cb40482c31476a119a3b4101a910c63 SHA-1: 5d020c7a64c40dee549b4a3b75f41e042095acaa SHA-256: 74b16e6079e681fc9678f5e6c0fdef5bf8076aa0b9c7a307473a97b1dc4c8d70
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs that appear to be part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. The primary function seems to be redirecting users to potentially harmful websites.

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=technical+drawing+with+engineering+graphics+giesecke+pdf
    • http://files.thebubbletealady.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739330/3ed64bc078ef9b.pdf
    • http://files.neurula.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437513/5181115.pdf
    • http://files.catalynics.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606392/2e899.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6601/5400/files/vinulilijon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5672/6165/files/duguvitelewopuxovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6105/9482/files/wetevasubojozij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/9525543421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5896/1315/files/negib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2535/0306/files/9147678528.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7944/1307/files/xojakuzemas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1536/5031/files/91439183678.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zukax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5620/9819/files/27715797235.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0412/4580/files/49670286867.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9200/0406/files/rokixofegupikutubizasixud.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_off000078c6.bin
8fa6ab89b6aaed842a7674cab0c94fc23918af8b7391c779a91ff49de9b08970
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78C6 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ba0.bin
3d820e6fc616f20ed7d490446af4782398dc8db2638c8b0af76c7c4f7ea765e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BA0 10328 bytes