Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dedbb71d63f979f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2020-09-20 00:49:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e1aff60b4078fd611bff2a019da20d47 SHA-1: 6b7c16a031bd3907712ce902267d9e32b33bac63 SHA-256: 7dedbb71d63f979f750331fd38a8dd4cc5bd591ce1af76aeb4e755feb6228c2f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to suspicious domains and are likely part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that at least one of these links directs to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains URLs that are consistent with the link farm heuristic.

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.me/wix?keyword=clasificacion+del+derecho+romano
    • http://nozoniv.clevelandaquaticteam.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739347/keludel_wenijizegoxip_bafawaterelimaz.pdf
    • http://files.mikelipari.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070846/vijowaraluditisir.pdf
    • http://files.cassieorduno.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164431/dabudimotenare.pdf
    • http://wutukel.pytharealtygroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813786/741869.pdf
    • http://jukakus.palacecityjazz.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070289/d396e998df58c.pdf
    • http://files.salemhistorymatters.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/fukusiduneri-midusoset-vujurilisonob-gokodifinumuraz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2820/0096/files/zagekopu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0576/2974/files/91282776378.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6617/1285/files/moto_morini_for_sale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0197/0837/files/majugoxabagenadepum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6876/5861/files/sesoxawatejosap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/8903/0048/files/med_surg_certification_exam_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8945/9368/files/pevibilenelinejofaxirusug.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008b9d.bin
4cec36f16ed810e2663ab659b7708f714187bb4eb546933e9688bdf7ff9c36be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B9D 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009cfc.bin
1a1a6c4660f73166d69464832f6a66c1c4ca53c5df0133272c0dcaf6fa4810f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CFC 10708 bytes