Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82dcf901671aca24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.9 KB Created: 2020-07-11 12:23:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: bfcbe199c31e1115559a7ac2ee642d53 SHA-1: b91f36f8707889fb3a1f549b72f0528efbecd257 SHA-256: 82dcf901671aca246fc5f82d267041a6769cecf140cc70a244872e33f882c75e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to other PDF files, indicating a link farm likely used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. One of the embedded URLs, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=akaso+v50+elite+manual+espa%25C3%25B1ol, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=akaso+v50+elite+manual+espa%25C3%25B1ol In PDF document text
    • http://files.operationhelpahero.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453531/tovaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.discoverbellville.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815008/6d26d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.haralsoncountyhistory.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302913/4438840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nancytangles.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740480/lazenumigulub_wusemizigiduzi_bulafikozomat_webudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.exmouthcaninecentre.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874128/jenasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.warrencountyfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969702/fetiseruxokonujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesearenotmygrandkids.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739153/6176ee93d34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.internationalschoolhealth.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813395/56a209b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.706wrestling.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856041/punubebik-sasafat-bukav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://vogajakojoge.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/83585333664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luribaw.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/34593484396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dujufapuji.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/sotesezuzulepopimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birefafaj.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/xevejozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memibenamefu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/jisipuwowonokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7754/2823/files/kapulelofadoluxivugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7708/4070/files/67306973534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/45366335679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/25322908130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4610/9341/files/30095345587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/35022180152.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000075b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75B3 6744 bytes
SHA-256: ffeb89eaad713c9717385028f79c9757067aafb2c2382ea8cbab0e6efe35a425
font_01_sfnt_off0000869b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x869B 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 38103b54e6885d25d0eb105aa3f5fe986bf122a1573b4f35f7dbaee06826c631
font_02_sfnt_off0000986d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x986D 2248 bytes
SHA-256: 8b88185fb1caa19b127db774f1e773b8ec41d1394bc7b72cd727186061f48d9d
font_03_sfnt_off0000a2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2C0 10644 bytes
SHA-256: c7458a2e2938ae5d404958f3553e45213207881157bfe5d464a6e89d0d274057
font_04_sfnt_off0000c66a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC66A 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 8ba0fbd8692d35223d61c2001725969a2fa72841f4eb16d427b35f7f26732cf1