Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5590b9f92b34317f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 140f2a39a3f4db64ac20f81cae9f44f5 SHA-1: e387a7a768947f22f959281f5c2ef326a2c5126b SHA-256: 5590b9f92b34317fe4389b940bd71983f2378044acb8a3a58e439e18e360b1a1
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=chomsky+normal+form+converter+java'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure the user to this malicious site. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=chomsky+normal+form+converter+java
    • http://files.swiftfitnessgroup.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409305/4539843.pdf
    • http://files.zandugandzic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384127/bejizodedabivo.pdf
    • http://meluvexa.groovevinerecords.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438577/6501816.pdf
    • http://kezuzi.pauledgarcranfill.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740405/fbcb5b31a1e77.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4431/5029/files/2794239760.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7634/6266/files/63610464743.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7751/5941/files/folugegivodolowitexirare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0982/7231/files/7805121346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4365/1741/files/vemefitoma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7128/3098/files/xinonimubozunupiwoparidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0610/6528/files/transforming_our_world_2020_agenda_for_sustainable_development.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6369/6805/files/bepujofukon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0612/2393/files/bajodetabezix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5775/0951/files/farming_simulator_2015_xbox_360_cheats.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007e5f.bin
4aba2bb845853324476be69e5ed1bf4ff35002942389efac2b843cac1129f0e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E5F 2828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000885a.bin
bc3d6dc690ed128678222fe03e7df54ffef8a514850680145c1b9badf9a420d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x885A 5328 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009a63.bin
5721702d2d1d81e65c0be5bba70f26a593961484b0f48a170cda0d2bda8ddfbb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A63 13432 bytes