Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 788770ac5732d3e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-07-22 23:13:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 139b3c4d9578dce46aeceff2f4f31a5a SHA-1: e642be949373c9481ac015247b961d141b621cff SHA-256: 788770ac5732d3e2772720d0735d0075c4bcd79d9ae174493a7d2a4d184a4dda
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to a redirector service, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results and potentially lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector URL further supports a phishing or malicious content delivery scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure itself is indicative of a link farm attack.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=mpls%20cisco%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.claraadolphs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407089/juvojenudupinamupado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spencermanbullies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739139/vemoliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mnductpros.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738725/931687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gregpicardandwendypicardgorham.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406807/9807030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ekmcreative.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775747/lesefutakuzikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4731/2789/files/45868065752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2290/1663/files/62693810139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/levenajole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90142435821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitumonas.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/bigudazifelixuzelaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baboraxotav.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/45462702528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xivatuzivo.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/mimufujusifulijusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wogeberej.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/wamiwotavabesaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9462/files/99956285032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/93366398369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6473/7448/files/loboxiterawurimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1125/2132/files/37979095702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9736/7452/files/gulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7679/6057/files/34099675451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1142/3902/files/10687740685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8000/0422/files/50255733256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1048/2588/files/60197754080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008a52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A52 4332 bytes
SHA-256: f3ec8e19e6088d5d52bf00885b627e02afd79fd04f7349b353e4c0a97b2d21bf
font_01_sfnt_off00009904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9904 14456 bytes
SHA-256: 1606c740cec2247e0d6a4a374cc50475a6ef3bda9071822594596984601e4e32