Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e817e940692064c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-07-09 21:38:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d0872940b69d3858033b6f2efae67e38 SHA-1: ecb82024db1b32e9bdfc56169e4b2db84aaee1cb SHA-256: e817e940692064c61bcea6604bb340ed9aa4c7f5015c926b0e01beeedc053aa1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links designed to create a link farm, directing users to download other PDFs. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though partially garbled, contains keywords like 'free download' and the malicious redirector URL, reinforcing the lure.

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.cc/wb?keyword=orthodontics%20pdf%20free%20download
    • http://files.myececlass-observe.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775654/1407538.pdf
    • http://files.breastcancerstartupchallenge.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163516/9f74ec2a364c.pdf
    • http://files.moesplace.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438234/d4dc9ca.pdf
    • http://files.thewaveindustries.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413837/a1b902b2.pdf
    • http://files.texashollandlops.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/7953459.pdf
    • http://files.amandabeekhuizen.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412858/f1437f969.pdf
    • http://files.rhondastruminger.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071076/1562942.pdf
    • http://files.rockvillehelp.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775619/vizisiwigifukis.pdf
    • http://files.raquelmeraki.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740860/3354846.pdf
    • https://rotoxepodib.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/gazugegovof.pdf
    • https://valoranas.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/vazora.pdf
    • https://nikiruweti.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/gotexemigazikafezam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29121996303.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66083684812.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/meragavafeduxilaxopuxaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13170590630.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_off00006a6b.bin
20ef507196c4f62e2454c8ec88f507754b53f93bf927b6bce695e8f56b02e7dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A6B 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bf7.bin
0d7f8a4bdd94b18bcbf7bae8521283e9e4aab74bed8f79994e6d8ef907520975
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BF7 10504 bytes