Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c5483b6866f4c8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 22:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 31b97353043321e7475c35a7e420085d SHA-1: 5f9d3050079a6d7963c33a9e5570fccd9b0ddd39 SHA-256: 0c5483b6866f4c8eabff0066bc52fab066cb4cb8400aea6e8c38e6f471977c89
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a lure for search engine traffic, further supported by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to deliver a secondary payload.

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=analytical+balance+mettler+toledo+pdf
    • http://bolij.rosariumsouthafrica.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695887/xupop.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1229/1751/files/brushed_cotton_fitted_sheets_super_king_size.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0713/0270/files/length_of_string_in_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0273/9362/files/metipovowa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2538/2051/files/sopuvuxegow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5120/3225/files/bourbaki_integration.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4393/files/42197199352.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6769/3474/files/alexander_mcqueen_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8794/6133/files/xikuluzepime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5782/3390/files/bvi_company_formations_limited.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3593/0273/files/nawubixalajoxodaxigezatu.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_off000063bb.bin
e94f34006ff921d9af75fb236140d5f71ffda74f1c62619f89e89bf744ad7253
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63BB 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075d2.bin
beefb8893322882234a003574119fc23232f39dc28f4b4a30776ed35ea725dfe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75D2 11604 bytes