Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e5afb2c4dcdc61e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2020-09-02 16:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4930488f57305c11ef68bcc935c35723 SHA-1: 5a9e9cb860592e9148790eb692e96663d1be4031 SHA-256: 0e5afb2c4dcdc61e41f4a158ecebcee97c4e977e1bd822582537dbaaa64d0ad4
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 infrastructure known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the primary malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to direct users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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.com/wix?keyword=antidote+book+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98e298_7c90dbf184594120b9ec93ae3eb3e888.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_025c4b465fab43029449cc5c50e7fc71.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/704566_334f196a197b406a9154b0ee87a18ca9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1615c_e4163078f2eb41109c70bec0ffadb676.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cc777_425c9dedcedf42edafff55bfe0a23f43.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7fc9513cd8a3429c960734aaf5d32b0b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2813e2_ffa57979db1e49359b6617902a0b3320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8364/5599/files/90820824986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6335/2227/files/kiwususujujabumos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5682/files/corpus_linguistics_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9454/0452/files/vozawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3197/8403/files/66390314016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0472/3349/files/agnes_grey_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6000/1957/files/29585356701.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7407/6315/files/check_icloud_on_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/regavoxuvuzitavilugasom.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_off000080ab.bin
e047fe196e8130b43043b1597524dce46c1a15063986bb251c72b984b64a9b58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80AB 4712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000090cb.bin
3138a6763f88a991ac0248c486d73d1ae77833550fc46138772846454e7377b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90CB 11696 bytes