Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b15361f86369e78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:54:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b6aaac83de3e53d41c93971e7902e534 SHA-1: 9f6c320b2e717c6db09826dc72978aa4bf519074 SHA-256: 7b15361f86369e785b163f16b042caf487d29e4bf15f844093f19c598791967a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for 'Calvin and Hobbes comics free'. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or redirection scheme designed to lead 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.cc/pify?keyword=calvin+and+hobbes+comics+free
    • http://xolapuw.amylchapman.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606592/kunemosigojixu_netorabodufuf.pdf
    • http://ranusim.romanacoutureshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775362/pesidaxetukul.pdf
    • http://xaduk.sheffieldcctvsystems.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813821/nibuv_ponalenalidul_pujete.pdf
    • http://files.laxgear4u.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695492/valevoruwoxofome.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3512/3102/files/sizonupaxubasirisuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1190/7488/files/sister_location_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2606/2239/files/mevejovajomozunamimigurub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6830/1212/files/muwemomobegedove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/8783/5815/files/76227142695.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7643/5621/files/xarili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/59210642714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5654/6467/files/eldritch_knight_5e_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2562/8327/files/american_dream_in_death_of_a_salesman_research_paper.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_off000159f7.bin
aaedab15be3754457cea668c2b346912aec2d1bf4affaf3e14dc2de1d7b0a1f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159F7 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016c0d.bin
e51517c1c497a4b479136701b8803c5b48dadfa02670db416946fbb71ec58e84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C0D 12860 bytes