Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0676e09e65cbcde5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 02:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3ba83e79e49c244b79a03043c11da625 SHA-1: 456a8e6bc33e0fb7f024837c29f7f8948b15b069 SHA-256: 0676e09e65cbcde51b7c2c345429539d8789c7f492df99817ab82470870ab665
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a download button. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Lexis audio editor pro apk for android' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload.

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.
  • 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
  • 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/wix?keyword=lexis+audio+editor+pro+apk+for+android
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc03df_9920c2564fa54769a1d5809e3a414fc4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_331ad7e87edc4c14a3869fe8a9245b56.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45e30f_5970f12dbcd94a1791749331dae4309e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2666/9987/files/varulopanuxirar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0835/files/86330553229.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9219f8_d2aba09315254326a4542d116cbe7e25.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1df9ea_9b694fca0a8245baa91bb7609ead81c8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79cb75_c66358bcefa24b49b89da5b044fbd323.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0779a3_1c512302b00f4ce189e6634b6c250f7c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3f66f03741b147d385a27749e24f2d19.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9d66c7_840dac9c3ac8498f962a505097ae54fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_39835e4bb17e4edfab816511a3ef0091.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/79e5df_6fc5b8b59b0d45258ad8a49f5edbb7c6.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_off00005397.bin
7f4a8ae20c2c07578c4b567cd8b7da6633e01bfad56bf2f37c1253bb46ade5cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5397 5076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064f9.bin
9e81cb13840989f13b823bee95b9e61a5ce02f73c187f21b4790555d0026f448
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64F9 10288 bytes