Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14ee9fb51b397d93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2020-08-02 09:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e48bb791adc6d87e7817efceb5c2fa2b SHA-1: d4e91a75ad65fec6ce566a2f3f41d805a50176d8 SHA-256: 14ee9fb51b397d93a514ccbd1d6d0b17b8628ff89d4181052cbc9ad56a6c9273
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector found in the heuristics, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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/pify?keyword=wild+magic+table+5e
    • http://files.revelstokedogtraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969498/2315916.pdf
    • http://files.klausriis.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453062/fa076e9d.pdf
    • http://files.adairwatkins.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164113/5616968.pdf
    • http://files.meadowlodgebiblecamp.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874197/zinowofojenebu-sasupa.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4823/files/40720579943.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6038/8262/files/9739876848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4666/5382/files/28953854958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3797/2897/files/jedagikopubijipeka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8140/8420/files/3019827768.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9928/3863/files/74065231828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9018/2297/files/57404144780.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7019/2802/files/disetuxuxavepozobufelobid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bujebunefevefosilipepeju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0567/2597/files/firegebosegug.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_off0000d2e1.bin
7ca9fa4558e825b2bb7a196201bffa3c7badf4adcf4776a9ef6e8b657220d26e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E1 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4c6.bin
8c50b89924cb1a8b65cc21163ee6b544a15a7d093ec71bebca6708539ed80eef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C6 10760 bytes