Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ab2d12f80ad0bce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-09-16 16:18:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b93c86b2f3023f0bf6f2a4d83eea7c57 SHA-1: 1953d695d95df762810923bff3514205b447cd18 SHA-256: 7ab2d12f80ad0bce57d765e945171369e1c572e0ce388c030e17b35b9de84d21
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic papers and a URL that is also present in the heuristics and IOCs. This suggests a phishing attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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.link/wix?keyword=anthropology+appreciating+human+diversity+pdf+free
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://a86a66e0-de0f-46b7-87a0-1e227422e571.filesusr.com/ugd/895bef_72493e1ca2fb45bc896dbecedca6f67d.pdf?index=true
    • https://a7fcfedd-6b4e-4311-9a8a-995b424894f9.filesusr.com/ugd/de60da_8c7b43780ebe44a38807f0107836e7c8.pdf?index=true
    • https://2b723ff3-d2cf-4b36-b0d9-0eb076047d2a.filesusr.com/ugd/f99735_ef8bafa8e9a44f25b076b5ed89a277fc.pdf?index=true
    • https://b27f202c-d2c5-4c16-9d7b-9020d1502e32.filesusr.com/ugd/cc3ca9_826dc7bfff1c4d5583891b04bcbafbcb.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3826/0899/files/83841008150.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4986/0765/files/hypertension_in_pregnancy_acog_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0252/6872/files/robez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/8949/4951/files/6030331428.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1925/5454/files/1737829297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5417/8216/files/55447773655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8443/9971/files/58722090469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0473/8206/files/4266124815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8253/7365/files/oliver_mtukudzi_music_free.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_off0000448e.bin
dd0b062b86cd01765245991b11d515a96b6d1d0b1e11f0bdd109927d2051b4a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x448E 5720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057e8.bin
3b3e6d817ae89aa7d5b453e1a74df29cedbad432e6b5304935cb8bc1c9d29fc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57E8 9684 bytes