Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 805bcc7e86939920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-26 21:20:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 600999e4731af0fd4cf558bdd7d0511b SHA-1: c4329a7a39714057868ba14babb37d7f2a3e9b8c SHA-256: 805bcc7e869399205240dc129a5be0b105bcbc572518aad2479d828f80f482bc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link-farming or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of a malicious redirector and the link farm strategy point towards an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful content.

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.com/pify?keyword=two+kinds+of+righteousness
    • http://files.rossmoynechihuahuas.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776298/2264609.pdf
    • http://files.rebeccasheraton.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405977/pezix-woxezapug-menedin.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3024/8600/files/aeneid_lombardo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9962/0263/files/34279473474.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0485/3402/files/fufagesajuteporugijifif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3859/7280/files/22086632714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6714/5366/files/zafomoloxekobarev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/4374/1845/files/lizatuxebekeduluropav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8342/3128/files/nuwevuzudob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/46386587253.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9570/3204/files/11676179196.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4895/1194/files/xabizubasir.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000077fc.bin
708cd4e8cf5103806aba08ab059e9d03aff848173994d989ff057a37cbf1766c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77FC 4912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000088bb.bin
fe2c7d4c5c41abce59a277e6c7cb02c99504eca4ac90187c632000251c20be1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88BB 10108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab5b.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB5B 4324 bytes