Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eef89d416b92764…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 10:49:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6ffb427683ab606217ce5b47339ea140 SHA-1: b57bd4173b7518001988823fe12e9c0c078639fa SHA-256: 7eef89d416b927643575128dcaa98fecfd909c54d0858fbc639c1a16406649b9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a Volvo V40 manual. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests an attempt at SEO manipulation or a link farm to obscure malicious destinations. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall structure and URL analysis indicate a malicious redirection attempt.

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/wb?keyword=volvo%20v40%202004%20manual
    • http://zumis.karenandrian.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637257/ecdf3953c.pdf
    • http://files.designsbycarolann.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814513/ac27058e6e8.pdf
    • http://newujika.lifestyleofthebeliever.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410685/vokukozuvod.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9229/6359/files/43740399738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9220/5978/files/dirulosexunatutobe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/botezosural.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8799/4792/files/23349823668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8484/7006/files/55337002246.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0937/4368/files/cooking_calc_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8376/5662/files/tipos_de_actuadores_hidraulicos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2580/0087/files/21712931621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4074/3329/files/40937135811.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6282/files/zosidopopabexinekix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3080/6679/files/67618693863.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_off000064ec.bin
41a71b130629d4ad78fe2c7e09183f54845a226eb7148235967dc964d384d161
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64EC 4944 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075b2.bin
049f6889dbbafafde5c6fb5385dfa854adc1f0d2e0a496b92aa29a0f245def1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75B2 10016 bytes