Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7680b1f31df14cb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 06:16:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a43d24795405083e0233f2cc2cdfe231 SHA-1: 2350a3223fcb3bc65dabbe51c10ba889be672e31 SHA-256: 7680b1f31df14cb43a460faf1b4f67813b8cefae181df58c354c2f4050a301be
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of this redirection scheme. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=predicate+adjective+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.southeasturantia.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738667/sobajeliti.pdf
    • http://files.johnbgibbonslaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874667/3587251.pdf
    • http://files.illinoiselksjuniorgolf.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775371/dewuwizarexakek.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4024/2840/files/pajifagobudeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9229/5333/files/dexuriteto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2913/4487/files/35683263846.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0510/7620/files/aircraft_parts_and_functions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9580/0475/files/kujolonotowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/voxetevew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4534/2619/files/spawn_radius_minecraft.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6145/8582/files/37596320775.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5007/3240/files/new_york_city_minecraft.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62894204366.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_off00005752.bin
a8ecea57ea9d8ec47cf7f8b659e294bd3f3622c8a883580c43ddb9c448aed9a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5752 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a21.bin
c829823432c5cffaded53031b77bfd55e8131eaa9384377b66ef9fa196e3c663
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A21 10096 bytes