Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4c182be33926f3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-07-20 02:40:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: b0fcbc95b7b17fc949898d5f59e1b002 SHA-1: 1fd5533185c2529e8c0cb935cf707652bf6b5a3c SHA-256: b4c182be33926f3f7ad473d87ecbcb33bf06a5a3ee1ebe469d4512930fe9f18d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links pointing to various domains, forming a link farm. One of the primary links redirects to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, preventing a clear understanding of its lure, but the extensive link farm and redirector strongly suggest an intent to lead the user to malicious content.

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=operators%20in%20programming%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.flyinktattooparlor.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379999/jilokonedun_gunim_gusuvevavuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asisproperties.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438155/fosujex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.neighborhoodhousenursery.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739837/vovuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saraarnoldbooks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815437/sofodo_galiduguwuzox_nimetonudufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quixotecommunities.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606003/rumokigibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thebohemianphoenix.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695805/7630269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gavinroypresents.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070207/lepiwukirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kappasigmamu.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710575/gakumibago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.billyreynolds.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871907/dedujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://zezisid.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/bufakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tofosigon.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/suwusasetoninekumaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zowigin.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/41930468034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9688/3868/files/xidinekatavefowiguvagegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3831/9527/files/71006567366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3506/5505/files/29269007209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5817/5901/files/94292161254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8671/6830/files/82369750286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0940/0214/files/donebajedexikupetinipufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2862/7099/files/63529404918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9562/1796/files/gidimiwuditetuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0235/6127/files/diragupuzivimiw.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_off0000703d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x703D 5144 bytes
SHA-256: 5a497a64cd8e606612b7026e435eff6c676c08b2a52ffe5d4b4c91eb860e5237
font_01_sfnt_off0000819f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x819F 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 14a04113b611604482aaab32fd3811c4dd7c864d83af58539d6b473a9f92ce54