Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 790de0efbfebf42e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 00:51:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 80fe425641f9462069f4f354e7953f8b SHA-1: 52b5c566e3cfd5c4e30752148d08101b42823128 SHA-256: 790de0efbfebf42e54f0c9c72427962cdb216ed3279e449ceb59b72f74da6376
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The document body text and embedded URLs indicate a lure to download a 'pharmacology book PDF', which likely leads to malicious content or further compromise. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.ru/wb?keyword=pharmakologie%20buch%20pdf%20frei
    • http://files.nationalduals.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740183/rowebi_newefirigo_wevuzadi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4467/3448/files/50425184194.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7115/1007/files/calligrammes_guillaume_apollinaire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4386/3198/files/fosenonuvawanikifun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/rejuwuxekewux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9257/3336/files/oakland_raiders_schedule_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7926/1590/files/71882252479.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3884/2779/files/kajoxexakixemalunubafapu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2314/6906/files/26775609353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1024/4256/files/aarti_sangrah_marathi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/53059057271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3146/1016/files/joxowitoj.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_off0000d177.bin
b82c6c00515dcc19a28e9623ca0a50a438c7689ced7ab5540b5efdbc484d536c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD177 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e451.bin
d58f0990e78233e2532acab153c9e3bca13a48d0d492ac3b2e52ea47f36e5072
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE451 14868 bytes