Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ae777938eee247c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2020-09-10 05:42:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3768c0ff87ea9af6fc073f2f2506a354 SHA-1: d93a98c1564a9c90da51556ccc9e356fe3da3a44 SHA-256: 7ae777938eee247c74c238f3fc1039bb4ca36dd8f3d123c586048448234bbff8
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a mass external PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the malicious redirection links.

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=anemia+wikipedia+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15d534_251ced795ea642ea9f2073dd1567b319.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/21e6f2_baf948d0c9344349a9093cc8dbb44e93.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5412a_687215bca0ba4b0493aa969015f185d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d48fe3_fbe67694483849bea8e06a3c1c0f4c9b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/963627_f51f0c2d53394347a15b99fb5130633e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3fd21f_308b22cfcd414debb1d91345031c894a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1c8c6c_2cd6115364cd4c1e8a537c90033bb0a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_af10a04a980c4568ba22dc6c15a8475b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3bd5f229bb2d4ace8ce9d91a1189196a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7471b1917eb94287b999ede0c3e7c742.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76de1a_306b5fc99ee942559ce5f0865284b8f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/221f3a_25601be49234428587182179b37b2470.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/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0b3.bin
4dd7621fc6b1611d0990fdd78f8eab85e44e906c894e18701d488ab265a8ed1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B3 4624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010058.bin
43e78f526712da8546fe5ce8e01381c234921fd2279aa03c3415351bf6ba8e53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10058 16572 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000133cc.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133CC 4324 bytes