Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76720b2bfa0cf4d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.0 KB Created: 2020-07-07 12:08:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ef150a9430681839db55051982307e0e SHA-1: e77bc1401bb5d87ffff6d04d73a7241dba568ec5 SHA-256: 76720b2bfa0cf4d5ac4bc0f0e990dd090858012cf04145bcae619623ffdd800d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that redirect to potentially malicious content. The document's body text, while appearing to be educational material, contains a primary malicious redirector URL. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/wb?keyword=measuring%20angles%20using%20a%20protractor%20worksheet%20year%205#measuring+angles+using+a+protractor+worksheet+year+5
    • http://files.breedingforthefuture.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681566/sutavumuz.pdf
    • http://files.balloontwistersdcvamd.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969375/gipagazovupibiz_tolokaduwimola.pdf
    • http://files.grundmeyerleadersearch.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636990/sifixoj_jutixepipi_bevasagipaxuja_sivosukisozi.pdf
    • http://files.savebozeman.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408529/80336d.pdf
    • http://files.sidleystandup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775942/3089407.pdf
    • http://files.schec.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871894/6851944.pdf
    • http://files.risingravenband.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/buvab.pdf
    • http://files.duanebrownlaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/2887604.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://wekekikozet.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/73888743202.pdf
    • https://duvuzeso.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/28214601759.pdf
    • https://fapodafa.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/81986131467.pdf
    • https://xalimiganifa.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/23141921915.pdf
    • https://zitipon.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/nijetemixis.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_off000044cb.bin
b55f67788e8b8cc97f082202dbd2d7ee4cad0cd99b1c40663c5021b1bf79822e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44CB 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000576e.bin
086e2da7d51111087c55a0814c69db91074fe27fb684a72d43da557427c89526
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x576E 9392 bytes