Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0288ee5ce4fa11ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 17:49:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b7613b20b4d27772dfc14f2f28803510 SHA-1: cebd47ffcc5c1d5ef9c3b069f9ff4fea604d2cb8 SHA-256: 0288ee5ce4fa11ab743f33551d15ee921ddfe944f936bb2f0345f426e0d706d0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, disguised as a crossword quiz answer. This is supported by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic and the embedded URL. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and a clear URL, suggesting an attempt to trick the user into clicking the malicious link.

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=crossword+quiz+answers+video+games+level+4
    • http://files.jeffkirchoff.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437736/kanupopurapofanus.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9569/5265/files/dozozife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0993/2440/files/pemetatutixifazupewusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9573/6988/files/roxunaboginixenepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1103/7589/files/pegusogaxesirofoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1094/8254/files/21808159010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3367/9256/files/zotiliborekadesifewenezef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6819/4965/files/26704474294.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7981/1750/files/64667291573.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8776/4387/files/91089435256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7118/4794/files/nunoxelinimalasosuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4316/8156/files/povogaxavuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1901/7124/files/37462728337.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_off000068ea.bin
0ab9a089b115525850bb9cbc7e9e1bc15c0e281a6349692c4565a4d394a8d37f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68EA 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b88.bin
5bfa3959730164cf3c0168adb97c1e9538cfb5cf43a9c0ec2672791b047d47ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B88 10116 bytes