Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03eb88a8fc8e5d33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:57:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 28cd53018e72244d9b9befdde66cbd38 SHA-1: a5df3a28e277f1139486297a295d65dd90ca3061 SHA-256: 03eb88a8fc8e5d3367e9b618404aea3af5f5a2d7493a2a2a82fd812ea20ba8da
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is a redirector that uses a keyword related to environmental agencies in Nigeria, likely as a lure. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise its true purpose. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.ru/pify?keyword=environmental+agencies+in+nigeria+pdf
    • http://rexal.weathershepherd.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695584/acd795.pdf
    • http://ditojer.pdhcparents.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775432/xitifotowunuj.pdf
    • http://taponiko.richmondblackwidows.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775732/vabatadem-kikute-lekidedizakel-tilamenupezuzez.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3712/1951/files/arduino_sensor_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2503/8497/files/muzukowiwep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8976/4245/files/fexawefufetafon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7804/8151/files/ririmokedusenabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/17673355306.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9633/4753/files/zisaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8512/8099/files/pujonadorejedejelelugi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/5014/4668/files/traffic_e_challan_delhi_app.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9309/8660/files/college_chemistry_experiments.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7931/1253/files/kinixujobowufabodaj.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_off00007f06.bin
28999002fc69bcfa2ffa354e3c868266e36e228c195c222a9f0bd27b1b14c3bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F06 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000091a0.bin
eacac49c408656e0d8d34ad58f3eeb6fbfce1e9f7759172695a19d20ae5c0052
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91A0 10668 bytes