Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f77f3030441f1d09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-07-09 09:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-08-10
MD5: 62f02a16e11bd835c9fd949b26268141 SHA-1: 6949a0ccd966cd1504241f44a01fed8ee43a1b54 SHA-256: f77f3030441f1d0919abd26a65e578bebd7ab2a89de7357ce68cb2975912bc5a
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, presented as a '4 figure grid reference worksheet', that point to a redirector and a large number of other PDF files. This indicates a link farm or redirection strategy designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially distribute further malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves social engineering through a deceptive document title and the mass embedding of external links.

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=4%20figure%20grid%20reference%20worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.cyclingadventures.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695689/sulexovabub_bubizelogu_mekodovi_pinuvawenun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.seedrinkeat.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681204/jalosozapatobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sargentirrigation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398164/zoladudipawozorem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.floridakeysoceangallery.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970014/jumepopem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.threeaineconsultancy.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070125/587526f65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lyons-muirchurch.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874295/firafokaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.howecycle.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636995/8de607eaad0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.movimientoprocultura.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775846/wisemerixajipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mixedadventures.co/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813063/momelevimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tunicahumanesociety.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164252/borugonixum-velogigofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.americanfoursquare.us/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740218/majibomavapakabopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pinehillinthecatskills.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738821/2cd1417c3c8057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://pevoruzon.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/80148725843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saziwiri.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/50102023051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitiwuxe.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/59774149696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zolibuvove523289473.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/83839357822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kupasexale.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/12021544148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72518400380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zugazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kofuka.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_off00004b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B34 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 225e9e440b56d3b7ae1caa21e4085341c0d8c05115ba9bf1614b2d80fc722f0c
font_01_sfnt_off00005c83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C83 8860 bytes
SHA-256: 140d1ef9d2970cd44d40d90a1a13a3b4f8433d084786d7c96ea3d85272fca414