Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 809282eabcd525f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-07-09 14:45:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: b932b253849699cc4d426d77218b7c22 SHA-1: eb624e5352bb752161faf2c84606e4d4f4b80493 SHA-256: 809282eabcd525f7de985e9643627d1854e97a474b9955cf93dc4a00ab8749c6
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, masquerading as a free download. The primary link directs to a known malicious redirector, and the document body contains obfuscated text and a URL that likely leads to a second-stage payload. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, potentially for financial fraud or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/wb?keyword=movie%20timings%20near%20me%20in%20telugu%20pdf%20free%20download In PDF document text
    • http://files.agorapublications.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682570/4da5af8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.seasonalsequences.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438423/kovebak_fadin_dabalivadedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mylunarsign.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857482/6fcae3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.workinnvision.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/zudemesenodevakani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.srrlsf.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380868/4f04903295aa5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.astrinidislab.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969645/e6ff2d03e4e70a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.biggsbassethounds.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857071/84fb7a2093dbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greensboroacrepair.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606963/terimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emporiumnostrum.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383588/rujanujolowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kiwiinsurancesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606819/6079350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://gopisasiru.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/45521069308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zukurewoso.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/piworurelunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wekusov.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tuwowelukuwolizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasotox.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zuvidewezawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mezupaxoga.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/tivepemasufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zojuvosalaj241086265.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/futajamorusabawufobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lokilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/84860081798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23063093424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005166.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5166 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 0f6547e259da4ecae574a63f94edbd5a8517623be50e7f254ae59142e9cf1add
font_01_sfnt_off000063cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63CC 10016 bytes
SHA-256: 16d021f3730200d85739cf3a2d123706d19fe09982d920a26e711d0f0727302d