Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 814acc2c225f7eec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.6 KB Created: 2020-07-29 20:49:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 16265143c3b4c215a45876cac11fd77b SHA-1: 84c25312e67e1c05f5e0cd2347768aae30be7211 SHA-256: 814acc2c225f7eec29e90789f90cc17bb03cf9df4a7840a89f2b46d9497411b1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=application+of+biotechnology+in+food+industry+pdf', is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'application of biotechnology in food industry pdf'.

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.cc/pify?keyword=application+of+biotechnology+in+food+industry+pdf
    • http://files.zuhoorinternational.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398139/sawoped_sulepag_pemilo.pdf
    • http://files.lifeindustries.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776263/bcb05c2.pdf
    • http://files.myworklifeharmony.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813511/1cd95.pdf
    • http://files.sarahkarjian.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636903/63f9c7d1d85.pdf
    • http://files.lhride.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303373/natafinejavus.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7426/3963/files/19339037681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2388/2650/files/76642469896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1022/0447/files/18649098527.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1028/5990/files/negogole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1662/6082/files/bevasukotavopogefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/48054502180.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5819/1768/files/jebifixamanumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9330/2178/files/gatekazagokinuwavot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6718/7108/files/66500976861.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4122/5880/files/karagelurasasawamupugixos.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_off0000b60e.bin
94e2d2cb0035be099100aba7fadae0f48b25c76f0d3fae476befb021f612928a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB60E 5528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8cb.bin
66ada28f64dde3ad6073202bff191e68e72d5cadffe9c05c21ec39da65e4b129
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8CB 10472 bytes