Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c44c9ba401c1c0c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-06-07 20:15:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-07-24
MD5: 44e7f1da1ae45066fc4687ff1a78a273 SHA-1: 09f256027092198da91604444e97e3695a5dd3f5 SHA-256: c44c9ba401c1c0c4d83edcf292100e8da1141676b91f61ac6b6d122498962372
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a link farm, designed to redirect users to external sites. One critical heuristic flagged a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains URLs that are part of this link farm, suggesting the primary intent is to drive traffic to potentially malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.cc/wp3?keyword=mechanical+advantage+worksheets#mechanical+advantage+worksheets In PDF document text
    • http://iamkynggran.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604448/komemes_wojufufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restingvessels.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130379818/dixeradiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beyondbookkeeping.us/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621392/penurujili-sofegani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylocstudio.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303082/mulipegobozune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtcwomen.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637517/3dd49d25e177d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haieryule.chinasummercamp.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776536/mopupafipexeka_furofetiso_tazuguto_janazojuguwufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wincliffproperties.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738755/wutigegibakugep_pusol_baxarivigupek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdlearningsite.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621165/dd087a3db62add.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://customartpresentation.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070527/d20c2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mta84.qualitynow.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476917/danirunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://kikibok.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/42564954932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zuletidi547353679.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/59596971372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezekifas.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/96716886988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xomajulagaf.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/vodaxoxekara.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000511b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x511B 6964 bytes
SHA-256: 78c4a40cddaa7d7facff7ed066f14c449a3f1b9bed66718d630de15a548fb75a
font_01_sfnt_off000062c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62C3 2460 bytes
SHA-256: 90cbffdb1405eea01d9b1ec7309a58f7ca94532e3fa3907236ba1e1e4da39447
font_02_sfnt_off00006dc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DC9 10352 bytes
SHA-256: b9a338cc49b51537b7e7e56980f31f5f02d83ac9a697010ca099b0c6979e4a87