Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 128b8c5eb8babaee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 03:47:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b4c6e3f5af8a6628ab4db61cb178bf4 SHA-1: 6b43f1b209e68ed958ec203a738fb9d243a0911b SHA-256: 128b8c5eb8babaee58a025b17faa82026b62d5e59f85f039f234594e8c4597ba
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for free movie streaming. The presence of many external PDF links, some hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to attract traffic and potentially distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=battleship+movie+free+online
    • http://files.tsseafood.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815003/zebiviv.pdf
    • http://files.mbraveryarchitect.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453598/zekomix.pdf
    • http://files.scribblesbymaurie.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775402/4381417.pdf
    • http://files.uniquetanandboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164558/rezatopujumum.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4665/files/lududenox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0330/files/webukefuke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5208/9000/files/51443957523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0355/8564/files/55779614625.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5942/1092/files/mufuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3876/7266/files/2577219952.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2381/0211/files/nijanuwesu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/gosekimif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5413/5456/files/51642498140.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3334/6719/files/27812372649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/13424607700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7918/8118/files/fozisarovuzupekubetab.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_off00005474.bin
a4be6dbf0fe079ca135c21f5cdd8589ad8c7ed236d9aba883f8c28fc686f0f34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5474 5248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000662f.bin
0a58cdf919737b3e892c3dd6ba45ffcc2c5f117e738b4ef2e7843830228763a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x662F 10248 bytes