Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86c12f34e2987ca6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-07-16 17:23:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 45db31b207eeb71a6d8c2328e85acb9a SHA-1: 318b10bc84d60994f1e23a9a41cc3e2fa544e769 SHA-256: 86c12f34e2987ca60429445c05a89e4c0c0dbd29eff19312308b68dc0255213a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector URL (https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=tecnicas%20de%20proloterapia%20pdf) and a link farm of other PDFs. This suggests a tactic to manipulate search engine results or to phish users by presenting seemingly legitimate documents that lead to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=tecnicas%20de%20proloterapia%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cfnaturalhealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163643/2829028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bestbodyfitness.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856567/libal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.innerheartpathways.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681002/46e9335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.travelwithsaranewbury.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380138/2502475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saturnrinanewburnmedportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453151/f2c1f5efb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aleksandragwardiak.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438151/6921859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gardenspotrentals.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681938/finefenusavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://dusebatewu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/92343624455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fizubakaxuz.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/44333735407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dowixame.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/gaxitibodew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jebozakid.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/21283923140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tozoxoxejon.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/40887231824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7901/6349/files/68867655931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1769/9477/files/52856007126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6603/files/18851529953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/77439678162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/57090569702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7709/8910/files/kuzudotarigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2062/3765/files/botiwami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/medarovadujagowurevasote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/25424470269.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_off00007909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7909 4888 bytes
SHA-256: 0bcaf62d922a17ae4304519871d7e1a905fcea82461f9c2e8f55493648ff94c2
font_01_sfnt_off000089a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89A2 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 6b457d903d73b7014b692bb56d06341032046981cd619835bb4ef7b7fd0064a8