Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e8c7b1669217e11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:33:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 27a59d77c7281fe4afaae98eb3f578a0 SHA-1: ea59fbb392d41f55463da1289433e3f5cca8a321 SHA-256: 9e8c7b1669217e1166967d214cf4f1cac7f5b801a341cf4cde23235029a8d7b6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirectors or unknown domains. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicate a deliberate attempt to host a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the extensive use of malicious links to redirect users to harmful content.

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.ru/pify?keyword=apa+reference+list+example+pdf
    • http://files.eternitygravestones.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/35404e.pdf
    • http://vunirob.litestprep.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/dibiduruxexixazi.pdf
    • http://xalin.robkajiwara.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/jolazijinibadinedegu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4126/6587/files/java_swing_tutorial_javatpoint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9806/2501/files/33753074398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0706/5760/files/78610766231.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8300/5093/files/35035982030.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9236/1887/files/a_christmas_carol_key_quotes_and_analysis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5719/8757/files/migulikenivelejavinovop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1880/5657/files/all_international_airport_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7988/3170/files/xudis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2986/4343/files/sudagukutojabizixasumusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2230/3911/files/xalinemokaka.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066bb.bin
32ced507cad7bf0d5dd2a9ebe2fbeacd38940c956368877ddcdeeab071953702
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66BB 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078db.bin
d0109a985bcfa5f31e3e3324ab8adce255103df25adfffcc68be9a500213d454
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78DB 11008 bytes