Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a502a10519de2bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2020-09-04 17:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eed5b2a8eea8e99a24253fe981557bac SHA-1: 2c5ca361f67a9badbc56d59019d432323367bfa5 SHA-256: 7a502a10519de2bf8fea3175e5485162338190bc71da320527cdcfab60093998
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to lead the user to a harmful site. The document body, though partially garbled, includes the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to benign content, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the primary malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.me/wix?keyword=charred+form+meaning+in+tamil
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohit
    • http://www.opentle.org
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ad2ade_918399ed978b4189995cc8f286c038eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74c34a_c9c2221619a04554b8a1149c8d265884.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/625844_a099641ced844126b60b06cf4c70dca8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/008e52_6a9e079f709c45169c1c143010bfa89d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a2529a7cee62464ca6c87f98189e57f2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5880/files/effective_english_speaking_skills.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0835/0619/files/soya_beans_farming_in_nigeria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5915/7921/files/kuruxulovipivelidiwokumoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6833/2959/files/ajooba_movie_full.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0469/4831/9393/files/3826070507.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33c377_fd7f62efcb1948d2aa75a2de2100e13f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_63e4e49511cc4012abeed03232ce7efb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16f109af16784a0ba3310f4d05027548.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/16a96a_ca82da681fb44ab782a6a7e9a855663d.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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNU
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegular
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Extracted artifacts 9

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x106B9 18872 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off000060ad.bin
adc7d4b62a368591808934ebd9f16f4d2df4af4c67bb7a8f73d71376208b4f00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60AD 8988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f36.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F36 5048 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000902f.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x902F 14304 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000b2f7.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F7 4120 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off0000bff4.bin
e66bd646ff29f48b94a898642357a1d5295b77faffa0bd70eb77acb4aebc9a97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFF4 2108 bytes
font_05_sfnt_off0000c9c0.bin
eca62b72654736461a635ba366d09d794777fd95c58152d2b251becdfce657e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9C0 6640 bytes
font_06_sfnt_off0000db5d.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5D 13100 bytes
font_08_sfnt_off0001258b.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258B 3840 bytes