Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7feb80dd42cd955c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:38:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebce62eac15bc466a3a3c26df6d3b460 SHA-1: 5e66a350d5aedfb88bcd89d959332130100f123f SHA-256: 7feb80dd42cd955c53109d48ef849bfa99713217bc249777cc7b2915e84ba174
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, identified as a redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a manual, likely a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, aiming to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites.

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/wix?keyword=aube+thermostat+manual+th232
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5a1791_1013ad28ab09427b9e4dd7e112cd86ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50c35f_02b91a517c5b420eaf2cd4dc2cf75299.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bad4b69883224d7d8273a374c929be27.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1a89c8_152b41644b4c45188f966acb8e451aa5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f0f215_57960adb343c4895a6370d3f164ba22d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce14f3_a803313fc7964487a39cda9adba19aee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45fd81_ba4a646bf7fd4f20b1a0c7caafe35378.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9535/9641/files/68936083209.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8612/7009/files/99383905090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3457/3991/files/classroom_of_the_elite_light_novel_volume_10_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/lexedovijusosubigixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8951/1068/files/kavadakewasegakikibopunur.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_off0000462e.bin
0221dc3c02b5c1053593b8194d967c8920df3802f25648d5621537a886d25521
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x462E 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005829.bin
30ada703be04cb20be0972f3c2b268b56e5caf0f24b488b66116293a758112fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5829 9596 bytes