Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ad30e4654e49728…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 08:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e92afd1176f7ef07cbf1aca9779d74f3 SHA-1: 28d93c4a3e273c301b341ad411cbf1a929cbbcb3 SHA-256: 7ad30e4654e49728d250f90d319805556c95c11997c28cf718499fc7199775d0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a 'bd flow cytometry guide' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of many external PDF links further supports the idea of a link farm or redirection scheme.

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.cc/pify?keyword=bd+flow+cytometry+guide
    • http://towugep.thelittlesymphony.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681504/silira-setupuzaguridex-tefazinobi.pdf
    • http://files.raifhyseni.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738507/xelak_wixumupunaberu.pdf
    • http://matatibom.murrellsinletlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483547/77acef92af3e449.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9416/files/nipijomalonegidemezuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3733/5464/files/berkshire_encyclopedia_of_world_history_vol_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3538/5247/files/fall_out_3_strategy_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7427/3948/files/52645244781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4287/4278/files/minecraft_zombies_server.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2267/8173/files/mixigasofafizesuzopev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0560/6049/files/fases_del_crecimiento_bacteriano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9752/2329/files/jalagaji.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_off00005d6e.bin
9488ede948e21661a53d01e0af6f3ac1b303d57bfa9f75294952a0e701bca6f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D6E 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f1c.bin
816480a868a7726461addc68467e289b73ff879c8d0dfb433abd690095dd08c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F1C 10620 bytes