Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a1c317699f394b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.2 KB Created: 2020-09-17 12:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2ce28336f561d570556830507089ed14 SHA-1: 6c8d68f70a0f020f20380c3c154cfd5bedc6513e SHA-256: 7a1c317699f394b84cf96269b80fd17a7a87018352cd759e39cde372fa9267cb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure and also for containing a mass external PDF link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and the primary malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.link/wix?keyword=grep+manual+regex
    • http://kimapaxup.bbt-livonia.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303354/18d0dca34.pdf
    • http://gumofovu.michaelcullipher.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379012/vujil.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0720/3739/files/72374528424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2276/7512/files/causes_of_induced_abortion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4488/1059/files/92551739871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6594/1917/files/problemas_psicologicos_en_nios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9236/1887/files/zikemigixinow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53741046047.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3146/8951/files/aneurisma_cerebral_2020.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000890a.bin
57af233cc272fc280b6aa2a2d2ccaa72bb874d5d53bf4d7a50d64ff3a7559fea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x890A 5060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009a32.bin
36144ae0cc07db2dfe45a8d6e526d32070eb2ef9517f3783484fcdff254fee15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A32 10844 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000beed.bin
d1c727812a8f964882f1301a824b6764c0f15d18538cb9e0ca36d9eb6e966c11
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEED 16244 bytes