Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89bd2fafa4e841e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-07-10 10:14:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-25
MD5: 2c957b66a4bfc12d490e3ced43ee46e0 SHA-1: b97a1ff9188ca0c4df976ffbee1d5c74708dbbb4 SHA-256: 89bd2fafa4e841e036383f4d2ff8680cfb586906ae9e85ef6e45cf28d1554cec
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF documents hosted on various domains. One of the embedded links directs to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a malicious intent behind this link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary function appears to be directing users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation.

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.com/wb?keyword=palaeontology%20books%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.pemmensgolf.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/febokibilodirina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wpcbuildingservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636954/togekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whitecloudsweb.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856624/3477828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.4-ucorp.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739567/7385382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.novaqueue.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696280/xadowozaludujamozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.networklakestevens.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438439/rowesiz_wusexaf_sutatadurix_monejope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gardeniahomedesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871786/faxujorefikizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.notaryservicesetc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681296/tejatotoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tp4seniors.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814652/tobugolamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ftpiercemasons.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682042/lituxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tlc-tree.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163774/8344923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://burelixub.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/jebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xilogip.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/42115605979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lovugamu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/dejedazodorewarivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gapepuzowafu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/28209240673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezakoz.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/98577206933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gavomibew482746657.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/59155071864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kokabejiwe.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/jedigozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/92161478626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vuvitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/34530012154.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_off000081c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81C7 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 9da8c03d820cdae2d376348d3ac161a0ab437282c031e277d0ddd0f30644f43a
font_01_sfnt_off0000936b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x936B 13672 bytes
SHA-256: beb6d5a9039ebdf981f285f04f9c4ae88236ce235f6c90160a103b2bbf47c43f