Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7641d778ea7bc3ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 15:26:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 225c6539fe9eded2b1b127a1e398051f SHA-1: c42feaf1d863d822ee7f764736dc762c9cbd4dac SHA-256: 7641d778ea7bc3ad44fe0318cb8ddf2816948670c0eba062e61f4b458c13cd88
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links pointing to external PDFs, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect 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=concepto+de+federalismo+pdf
    • http://dabupe.drivingyourdream.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814575/taref-togede-gisabetozixa.pdf
    • http://files.jacksonwritereditor.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379828/73d501b4a1.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9462/files/30164573422.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0708/0605/files/lekodekikusuteron.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6429/4557/files/83216892629.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4253/7629/files/xuvupefotajan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6797/2513/files/geometry_problems_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/4849/3205/files/google_books_upload.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0205/1229/files/27960251587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2721/0144/files/biology_multiple_choice_questions_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1594/6918/files/how_to_pronounce_numbers_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5866/7430/files/tewelakeje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7164/3554/files/ada_guidelines_2017_hypertension.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_off0000b209.bin
de7a192949f92e1f1b98c40f93072a713a64944a14aa7843e8b4ff7f67779747
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB209 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c39e.bin
80c28edd22dcbb2d9102d31c90bd1051f31555e695d4a2ddd8002ad1fadbd791
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC39E 10980 bytes