Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77d0070d14822b95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:30:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a257c07a5be61c604065b335487cce2e SHA-1: e5be05ae4f225a8c19551acb165ad9420d87ea99 SHA-256: 77d0070d14822b958668705a14f64806bc9448ecff56d0c0fc6c537bcae76980
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including one to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though obfuscated, contains a URL that likely leads to a malicious payload. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

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=behavioral+finance+psychology+decision+making+and+markets+pdf
    • http://files.simonalexandercollier.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398194/2705524.pdf
    • http://bobunu.aftereuphoria.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856543/mufuruvafuzuz.pdf
    • http://files.climb-onmaps.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874086/ef913625f.pdf
    • http://files.localgreenssb.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380354/5906e6b.pdf
    • http://files.amalgam.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776769/3774010.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9183/5547/files/vafazemoraj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3982/files/64048938207.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6318/9412/files/mibirakajamopubuvod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5211/2808/files/react_native_run_ios_device.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6199/1841/files/xeroxufetifi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7461/7511/files/79966246372.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5543/0309/files/jesisijul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8787/8549/files/98332653484.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6012/6118/files/57295682965.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_off00004df4.bin
719d7439c8e6a756b78734a6eb8322e195590575ef3e6c7beaf547924d6b38dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DF4 5844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000061bf.bin
54ecac2d83b1f675435109ed1759ed7a06bc00337341e74e69de2b407735ef4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61BF 10196 bytes