Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b6fb057d57f39b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-07-10 17:01:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: f6b5884e25ce6ddb7cde7cddcaee51e7 SHA-1: 5c314475f8226e2e750de87876c3d87ffa2de054 SHA-256: 7b6fb057d57f39b1669611120f355ccb70f20994e35e1ed6ff91a197e20a2b94
184 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 disposable hosting and appear to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, suggesting the ultimate goal is to lead the user to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of numerous links and the redirector heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or content-luring attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/wb?keyword=media%20cuadratica%20estadistica%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.topmattfnq.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163910/wolozekugobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clients.summitplanting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776219/638329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theeternalsea.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814652/5227782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.georgiahormones.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637168/1b4dd83a934d427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.funthoughtsonlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483361/wazapoziwezowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ariannasportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454098/kopukasusesevenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.camdentonpawn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410094/retaxenetu_pikefidil_rolube_fozojitiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.freedom2flyda.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397934/37451a966a5f59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gracenathanielsounds.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453934/romolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goconfigure.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438835/918769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lydiaoxley.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739678/5198912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://surefab.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/vofazube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bigoxufogir.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/97294047939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasewodaba.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/sonosubepirulameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dojivoxavinu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/miwezarawixapip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2492/5347/files/88000143832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/80278007767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/58585016777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/24383854658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5427/7532/files/kanizovapabozizoramig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005aea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AEA 4788 bytes
SHA-256: a76c9d728034222feecccb9186fe6f23377f26a0aef33426e3ca478548c0dcc3
font_01_sfnt_off00006b44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B44 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 2ab1ed04dd33d0804bd22030cea01f2696775988a355f37904db3723ecef165c
font_02_sfnt_off000090f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90F2 16084 bytes
SHA-256: d657604601c07a6cf666dc8a00d19994aa5efb5edd91eeca27759d64a9703145