Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a617054b86fb7d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-10-17 11:32:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 71b3c2c6c9e36dde1b177b16738e371e SHA-1: ef52b388df89f91e90a629f4d9924547c11bce00 SHA-256: 7a617054b86fb7d6e08ce0ba3823e28375ddf55dcfe2a4cafe4285820a41eb9b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to a malicious redirector, which is also present in the document body. The document body itself contains obfuscated text and URLs, including the malicious redirector. The presence of numerous embedded links to external PDFs, many of which are benign, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious link. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=modifier+pdf+mac+free In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367271/normal_5f8a7b7273f28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368742/normal_5f8845f87909f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zozilevijuni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383476/muratakizoxivabuxapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuxozajuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379873/bewoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwisasivituw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070703/d33a4a57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipefejiri.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969755/2911433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nurekagenarufab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636906/8020818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369764/normal_5f8a3366f0caa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376856/normal_5f89d0b4cb4ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375207/normal_5f8a88b555d6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366032/normal_5f8a9d628192d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365652/normal_5f86f63894510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0492/2812/0217/files/52209097065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2679/2093/files/21599644974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/5008/1690/files/present_simple_negative_form_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/9127/2903/files/st_ives_moisturizer_collagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/62148828-2f17-4f6f-b8a9-8054f470ec11/naxalopegogoteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4be1df21-2609-48df-829f-dfbb568ee08d/93618706627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2a59361-888e-46dd-8fd3-2cd6a9d6841f/22189079812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/24328384-ea76-4908-802a-81a13bce9997/lesaxefogomovuvokudubulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0476/9379/1391/files/4684435051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/4041/0262/files/malay_to_english_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0500/5236/6496/files/ias_prelims_question_papers_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9644/8917/files/patagonia_size_guide.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67F0 4696 bytes
SHA-256: 2c081a82d06add95be178dc2684e548fb5a5cdc6419c314088ebe72d11097cea
font_01_sfnt_off000077da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77DA 6148 bytes
SHA-256: be38186c9256ba0e64b07d34cca2e63b176d3ffd182ae4667a642b503e748fe0
font_02_sfnt_off000087ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87BA 10008 bytes
SHA-256: a221278adaaf398df659597caf95ebebcd12c85966dc3067abd92dedcb3f866a
font_03_sfnt_off0000a9f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9F6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3