Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12be2ea70921dad9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-07-31 04:21:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c83163b2883993811d7d62292e43dfbb SHA-1: f858dc0c50c22cfce7b3d333b616bfcd209d6bd2 SHA-256: 12be2ea70921dad97ddb7784fe945a76a371969185d6c09b25eb492c35b80211
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of a malicious redirector URL suggests an attempt to lure users to a compromised site for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

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=assr+1218+pdf
    • http://files.nicolemstephens.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384542/9d8adbb0041f3c.pdf
    • http://files.menopausalmommyrants.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071289/3649917.pdf
    • http://files.flawlessdiamondstx.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071082/zikava_kabevowa_fokiniwal.pdf
    • http://files.reederschurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856244/kinasuritegar.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1747/0101/files/45981353590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8558/6849/files/vadujinobono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2175/4787/files/kegupiwokuxovimixomem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3633/4501/files/mokotetuxibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7661/6346/files/pezodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5107/3174/files/luvifatetiruwugowana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6350/1222/files/kajigusotonozezetixap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3727/5813/files/xuvujogebabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5584/8355/files/32200242503.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1152/9114/files/97408941937.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7344/5792/files/6003326998.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0532/0088/files/lunibojebazevigej.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_off0000602a.bin
4ecca2252b4a6e9d2976a241aa79b7192a790115ea1640816eea9055463f1126
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x602A 4484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f5f.bin
fa0a36d492e6d1b331956ecda8fe8b53774b5c170a0bc928926abbfd36679a87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F5F 10128 bytes