Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b93b82ff8724556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 00:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1533f81f90bed5aa29912cebfdbbbed6 SHA-1: 8e34edea7638bf7606ad9bd26502387d81e6ec2e SHA-256: 7b93b82ff8724556ba6561452725bfd989bc6916e0250133b6d8dd305743e804
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 infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious behavior observed is the redirection to a harmful URL.

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=high+voltage+transformer+testing+procedure
    • http://files.northmetroweekday.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856954/bububawujitigudevup.pdf
    • http://files.mrfixitroofing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453006/6caa5f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2270/5055/files/xelapejamafud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1828/7266/files/step_down_transformer_design_calculation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/gakatuxakurojager.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0843/4081/files/naberafuloxanivojutuzelaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1254/6975/files/denon_avr-_s710w_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4071/8496/files/dalenikakez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8198/2361/files/biology_class_9_chapter_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3184/5271/files/19972800083.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3199/4280/files/brothers_conflict_episode_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0545/1174/files/zonuwoworodalu.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_off0000660d.bin
c53567e4a0917d03f9bf9076b3f46803f0d9e4439dc23ed2e91914e1cec043f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x660D 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078e4.bin
96ba3e2a2ef1ee56179b156e96c1685d15d364dfdda7e14cd097c4a64dbe5459
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E4 10900 bytes