Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce14a386325d3ead…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.7 KB Created: 2020-07-08 18:57:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: fd2abb53eae79004a9a630e22d3cd6d6 SHA-1: 6ddb06186d4ca379a4290688f6102657b8d81bd5 SHA-256: ce14a386325d3ead986deab3f6a2e8834ca9958501740dcf58dd6d673b1e17f3
184 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, many of which point to known malicious redirectors or link farms. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure to download further malicious content, likely disguised as academic material. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself is indicative of a link-based attack.

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.cc/wb?keyword=sistema%20respiratorio%20pdf%20diapositivas In PDF document text
    • http://files.headstart-getcap.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380138/6cd55d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.martialhartamas.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814279/6186ec0be38b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yunkawasiperu.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/vizarifogumawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrtsautorepair.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437823/vogokan_tujetopafax_xunavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tylermoorefilms.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438499/1219661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.haywardfitnessfanatics.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874413/dugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.josepblas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437268/kiwinorubidosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.quantumpoint.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874031/fexurugomaseba_livorejalolokib_kuluvewowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://nezemifuz.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/71801875938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bidumuweso.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/75006859768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segokowiw.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/81437422508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pariwofa.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/62802385938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebofupafu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/19409817737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lajotulej.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/vukabupefela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotuwapifufe.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/dumubiruwozasufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66083684812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zorugeligix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xigidewepiwunabifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48975286879.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_off00004add.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4ADD 5000 bytes
SHA-256: 936bf7fdd3d66f98f8f1cd34585b4a4c3e00bad71002e3a4d3a6a8720b11b097
font_01_sfnt_off00005bda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BDA 8712 bytes
SHA-256: 997c25e893876e5f0566a82433e7c7882a3d515378ae53393cb47ca75712e77a