Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01cb15dff2db0665…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.9 KB Created: 2020-07-19 21:55:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cd0df297cba1d942971986f46b7ff819 SHA-1: 1d5c66cdd32196ef5b6d8521c349de89de9564ec SHA-256: 01cb15dff2db0665ae4919f927ac85166de296c55c3fc076d5cb18f565b8a817
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is designed to lure users into clicking links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://files.australiandisabilitysport.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874691/sefuv.pdf
    • http://files.musee-militaire.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070317/551221.pdf
    • http://files.tomorrowstechnologytoday.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/fididiwegaf-xadekinari.pdf
    • https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=hematoxylin%20and%20eosin%20
    • https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=hematoxylin%20and%20eosin%20(h&e
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3105/1931/files/49676143586.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/65557249536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0334/7097/files/kilus.pdf
    • https://remumalu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zatulefogemejoxulu.pdf
    • https://kemofef.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tuvumalukoxar.pdf
    • https://limalido.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/bakopomaralirin.pdf
    • https://dejatixid.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/jitaxokorosatoz.pdf
    • https://zegopaduxuf347937540.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/daziburunemowikagopupifom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1379/9066/files/98364429896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6519/6197/files/51840140609.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58933331969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2960/2205/files/tibid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4290/6007/files/pagaku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zebegevuda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6065/8330/files/34734303619.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9866/9220/files/xumesadekas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8000/0423/files/85826377325.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_off0000a21e.bin
ab8414b7018ac91fc942e048ba3c8ad2f84aab3e3260dfff2f4ba090cd612f3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA21E 4964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2e1.bin
3cf2cb6ec96dea7d21c91f27dceaea6e5b5f84b599816d0d337302c59bbc5cdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2E1 10444 bytes