Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a7b4be0b4dcbaab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 08:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 49e617c554495bbf431fb7783c5b0608 SHA-1: 7eec6b9beaf7f25d92a0bf07254e5a70f19bbf04 SHA-256: 7a7b4be0b4dcbaab3210023e0272b5774e206315639cedcb7c5eecd782760a9f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated.

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.com/wix?keyword=tecnicas+de+investigacion+criminal+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67e251_2ce8b8d49a3e4a0c9d6829deac565c91.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d94ae5_b77a9abbe2144cc880a6b37d3e91ae1b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_81e8c549e290426da2139fed73d8dbea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_44b688098da540dca333d2bb75b5df94.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5438e3_61da27c7cf0847eeaf5d8b7ca42accba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b47cb_2a07991bcdc34b7c9bd2da8c6ff8f6d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1426225cefd9417493bf0331e6b88b03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb5a6a_93a7e3ebf83e4883b7a737c1adcf8837.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e8506d_0f1464b8bdb44e5ab7e196d3f9a31ab9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/26938b_fa3da4e9170b436fb823a27bcbf04827.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/822ecd_ffb4bc6a205a4af394715ab84b37180c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0f9e07a756ce49879421599252017b1a.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_off000060aa.bin
e292054af9408e8a93606b914057702f17c9dcec472bf784f3b3fa6617dfb5a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60AA 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000733e.bin
160588342cd9134e8365fdf79bcdb196dbe3feaf2c013a21e649340f5cfe12bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x733E 10832 bytes