Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b20beabce453957…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 07:39:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 27e0fbee9dccaececab29f6a41c1c7a7 SHA-1: 9d1901beb5061e7039bf0eb2139863895a4a185b SHA-256: 7b20beabce4539570a0106a7e32ed1d3b27d4c8967d2d1599aae00303211cbaf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF was flagged for linking to known malicious infrastructure. The document body contains obfuscated text and URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise its malicious intent.

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.ru/pify?keyword=woofer+song+video
    • http://files.sklgtraining.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437378/3ff4af81a01a3.pdf
    • http://files.stephanieportfolio.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712127/df19eb3d53c.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8597/8018/files/32906900257.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96951977507.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7845/1349/files/asos_curve_formal_wear.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2480/0154/files/zabomirodaxuboresolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1927/0306/files/5943316747.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4227/4471/files/69963031097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1211/8952/files/fe_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/1564/5856/files/negujomipuxevog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7754/2823/files/bumogeledudokufosis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3617/0657/files/sixidojuvulevenisamurum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2807/9004/files/brothers_grimm.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_off00004723.bin
6e4c2c309f367501f6fdcaa790f5eafddf4ffdbc678f42bd26aa730c9addb1cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4723 4908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057fc.bin
91a6135c36441abb8964548e45d48e4a63d6f2af911608cdb40cf9510ca885ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57FC 10452 bytes