Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9b8a740f62a4d27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-11-06 03:02:29 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f938919d8428b205f252914fbd6166a5 SHA-1: 17613808ca2c34d0106d881b1785d20f9f75efa6 SHA-256: b9b8a740f62a4d27d79143bec2112c0cda493640abbe63e58442deb985278e64
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with at least two pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure and link farms. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches one of the identified malicious links. The presence of many external links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious or SEO-farmed 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://cctraff.ru/123?keyword=ikea+circus+tent+for+kids
    • https://kuburabet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134362545/faxufubokiwizixasu.pdf
    • https://nawowelefet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134498780/wotokofakafon.pdf
    • https://tevirilozarenov.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695732/bebid_nimosuvesujeb.pdf
    • https://kuliwulakut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134523122/gatijadabuxupaboma.pdf
    • https://gonerogad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438616/5c35e9d.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f558c1bc-3def-4bb0-b933-109cca83aab3/sigudijasigiwe.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gateme/autumn_immunology_conference_2018.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d645530d-0cea-48bc-b3a9-ffa230a4ee2d/pafobulaveluxesimiz.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff746011-fbf8-47c1-ab12-2968a59c9f49/degutusiju.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8edb5c7c-fde6-4d3b-a814-496210f5fba1/dexezasitewulekijafene.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rerinago/raisin_in_the_sun_poem.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006681.bin
9d20fe885ffac9fb4d10e0c1a15a9e9c4c5e60b004e69d90f9cf5894bbd988d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6681 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007785.bin
541f7e9fcd7e3790573a8c5e32517198ffe6a02f79dec25956548a255e70d45c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7785 11532 bytes