Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e30a98e84fceaeb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-07-31 14:10:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b34c4dd1c37f76f81873691ee03b723d SHA-1: e1139791abce433dd32d266388faf3af0ff18f59 SHA-256: 0e30a98e84fceaebff9cfe368228dcb802b6c7f8a95628c3338872e377c5240e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

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=castellated+beam+pdf
    • http://files.mindfulnessnow.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775592/daa5966a69.pdf
    • http://files.clevelandpianoteachers.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607000/mujimokuse.pdf
    • http://files.accipitercycles.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398308/jegiwekonurudamomir.pdf
    • http://files.mhsbritish.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776180/rifijijar.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7939/1646/files/musev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8051/5745/files/75723042857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4156/1503/files/45580591089.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/mugelarubodukovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8570/2054/files/dowesiguvif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/xiruzatovuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7430/4662/files/wulerime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2848/0157/files/kawobevatinumawo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/6565103434.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9432/4888/files/60351632562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9088/6299/files/vuminiton.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1961/6935/files/likepisorabazanaxefibiju.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_off00006f4d.bin
fe925f303d34f44e568ff1d8e58943ac0a83f4a8ca5ca5172471aadf3f3ac57c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F4D 4776 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f91.bin
c7e668024115a8b5d4c4ad7531fe062f10c0e54a3ae619993b04fed984f5e600
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F91 10756 bytes