Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17e4f3385f0e9d31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 07:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5e5f47d5e782a32e1e071329859a3be6 SHA-1: 8335fef1dacf6a3c66001d9a78992b04fd7f6b2f SHA-256: 17e4f3385f0e9d3142cd627b0c21e45da70d3f4290500900a2245cb68cb47022
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, forming a link farm, with the primary link directing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious infrastructure.

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=darker+side+of+the+moon+sphinx+answers
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d238e8a2d67e4e41911288f40a2d4cc3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef9bff7715084d1098bf4381f9438443.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0286dd_2973855a2fd14e3a82425d8579e3973b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5360837f048243f5b64ed894b6c65273.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_84be9afa38154b139808240a5b1dc8c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_29b7b00f22784d17b0900dcefed3238d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4d998_9d88617089a644b58d0cbd65ecea02f2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de60da_fc6b4019612d4c598b2be7d0456fb7c5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4582/1338/files/zabonatewiwer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8019/7031/files/beers_criteria_ags_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5298/2684/files/afscme_local_999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6976/files/update_windows_7_ultimate_sp1.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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000b445.bin
7bfd882171cf55b6be390e1173ae0e6dfbb81317876047409ddc42d1cd0a7d15
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB445 18208 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00007ec9.bin
558b037df06607b8b05993179ae1968964c2e869c35f0e93ba71381e84b0df16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EC9 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009159.bin
cb6cbec43f12b9c8bbb77e213dcc290b6e91658991dc773779b53c30d8f0de42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9159 10132 bytes