Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75f6835ff999198d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 14:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f79eb1ad8254bdbd7560720cddec7c03 SHA-1: fefcfca55bb31b3303861dec71d24d9787c4ebc0 SHA-256: 75f6835ff999198d35eed677877b3d9123f78b476f3c4e94447bfe8a6a742734
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive lure related to pregnancy exercise, but its primary function is to host a large number of external links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure. This suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

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=benefits+of+exercise+during+pregnancy+pdf
    • http://files.mirrorsofgodslove.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483138/jokaz-diwuve.pdf
    • http://dazip.davidkruk.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873738/d1e1727134.pdf
    • http://majedi.citygoose.ca/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871390/4101451.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7743/4525/files/becoming_a_better_me.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7723/7913/files/41272126555.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0112/4760/files/antonyms_english_words.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2210/6271/files/vavizudizezosuxuxefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5423/4785/files/horizontal_asymptotes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9636/7511/files/77463896162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0244/5475/files/vozavulinokemuvizefoluvax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/40035651652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4417/5013/files/76212772070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1540/5725/files/99386429403.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_off0000754a.bin
f9bb5a883290fcb7e4e3be3757a0554461a1d831e8c84ce53474e0e9cd5c01cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x754A 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008823.bin
49926faa16497673c19ac63b4206f86b6d1c05123b564ab92a82246e0c2f66ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8823 10036 bytes