Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b068b94a70df444…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-09-05 07:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 08ebf3dd0696096c3492250f81f7781f SHA-1: 4a6dc3ae42205f4dc57c23da11a8f2b7ae7554a6 SHA-256: 7b068b94a70df444b4e1ccdd5c7b683ab6c42ffb04292b382a72e123e958fc6d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'vocabulary exercises' and a URL that appears to be a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute 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=vocabulary+exercises+for+high+school+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b444d4_261e0717ade74acaaf2dc9a0dcfeebff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/594ae5_72d7d576e6f34088939d914961520bb1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b7182_1691d496a1ff436b8c8e64198a3731c4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/843280_0eadf1ad1ab14ad6b4c2040630acb9a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b18e4d_05c2337ba449414fa5bfa4c045724f35.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8714/9733/files/how_to_uninstall_utorrent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1060/5735/files/kitajaxepusetewoso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5514/4347/files/goderibirirove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5172/7513/files/online_reservation_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/49016047302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9502/3013/files/metformin_max_dose_medscape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/9022/2744/files/24729834844.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e125ae4e91294d01ae199ca72fba06ab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2a2e94_31c4ba422c4544788811a9de779d5b97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3fd21f_eb3c3e7d8c0e46359519fb6fbf2d1b51.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_off000060e3.bin
6542979c88c3abc9e4b827d7600871abf9cc23d14535c21889a73af6784b046a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60E3 5692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007448.bin
8783ef89a4b5d72671afa0d72f0c33d18773ac2671e17185eeaa9c5bc90feffc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7448 10048 bytes