Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75ae116121df0373…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-07-28 21:15:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c43bad23a747e10b7200ce99bdf8dacf SHA-1: 30f5ef1266a16ee5ba77207f437fdb4f2893b832 SHA-256: 75ae116121df0373f66340bf637575a29ac1982177d94488448e25da3cfc2679
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to artificially inflate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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=despacito+2160p+video
    • http://files.cherylannhillsartist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/kikoxupufa.pdf
    • http://files.tntgreatfalls.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775653/jenezudaxaro-waxikebibupo-gosolukisiweziw-fefuwajadijo.pdf
    • http://files.kimbuckelewart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776001/dajuzobizixoli.pdf
    • http://files.jakemacshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069978/raxugobijusiti.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0115/9575/files/81592385461.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/29878061118.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5332/5215/files/wuvinubeliroxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/gewufovukuxeramivawam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5721/6669/files/ginusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6254/9910/files/42807870955.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3373/9932/files/10089151780.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3636/0351/files/warefegowevixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/74497770923.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9558/8005/files/70451006253.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_off00005c55.bin
0edae5f57253f7bc0f5311821a42282c5a75a8cf4df124a81ce695bdcaaed5e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C55 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006df3.bin
f8e9188dc3618e088ea9dd3a1c6569de6dfc42d56f4629d82b1f1455582de742
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DF3 9820 bytes