Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53a8696624a36261…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-07-27 16:24:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6000c8b1f49e1650043beeda3f3b2fd SHA-1: 77c1e0b8b9e67bbb8fe0e5cbc2ecabee3fbacc0b SHA-256: 53a8696624a3626157450fdc522f3cd5998d10087b87dadc23e23525cbca6383
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to reference a '2018 buick encore radio manual', suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The PDF also hosts a link farm, further supporting the malicious intent of distributing traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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.cc/pify?keyword=2018+buick+encore+radio+manual
    • http://files.nicolawilliams.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738711/331614.pdf
    • http://files.rccxandillness.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970004/4448379.pdf
    • http://files.matthewjacksonart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438177/wekejolazekupizaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8114/5243/files/47590278119.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bararilisubolubudikolumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7675/4344/files/bikem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0697/5382/files/niwogebenemaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7086/6076/files/63699043645.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0461/7119/files/mavuparugapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8991/0167/files/87064831619.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61238086127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7053/7374/files/gumulim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6321/3209/files/88013385240.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5153/2963/files/11092083818.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/2128194791.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000075bb.bin
dfb157aaf03a65d97fb00e0324f31f806ec5852687d1b1fda62195230e0b3fe7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75BB 5336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000087a9.bin
c5401304710e68a791bd5c98f57cc1b8b0f1d06f1c0b906f8f60de323147ccfb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87A9 10220 bytes