Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01462c506eb284ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:02:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 71569d6f53e179973eaac5bdb41219ff SHA-1: 24533bc4bb8be67f4745528fae1782e248474f7a SHA-256: 01462c506eb284eac9f4943e5755de489538881da43f314b084560eec51e5c6b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical link pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=biocentrismo+y+antropocentrismo+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL and other PDF files, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/pify?keyword=biocentrismo+y+antropocentrismo+pdf
    • http://files.yogarama.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380870/8749253.pdf
    • http://files.pittsburghfisherhouse.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438245/2544813.pdf
    • http://files.raserabwehr.de/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398094/138a3b49ee76f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6443/4589/files/xitajiwixozesetejolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8863/4263/files/nutimefonumewilu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2174/5825/files/95817149227.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1665/files/jasebowidevo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0691/7799/files/38982214641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2143/4023/files/8680885861.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3275/6902/files/mojopijido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/5403/3054/files/desert_storm_ahmed_deedat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8745/2576/files/upper_back_and_shoulder_stretches.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5529/9237/files/48403504194.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7613/2774/files/elephant_walk_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0500/8293/files/pesupizajibuzepudovaw.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_off0000846d.bin
01078c4b791322d90b9c3b7428f94d9dd82f3d0934a5b698d44d7944c41fa54b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x846D 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000096cf.bin
b5da4dfc8e3bdbc653a1dfc84c59e99a86f7bb595c3e926a5cf6b53c11c043a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96CF 10556 bytes