Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5623e0998e82c004…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:29:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 30f7c6828b82b394088077fee1d8f4e1 SHA-1: d717de9f716fd919dd43faa11d74426a5bc363db SHA-256: 5623e0998e82c004d6e4eebf0b27576455fb02a749ff5ac2ddc0be851dd3ea16
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign content, but one critical link redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'companion guide' intended to lure users into clicking the malicious link.

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/wix?keyword=introduction+to+networks+companion+guide+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e9a201ea9e9b486cbd7d8926f9c12019.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_bcf112894da740b3be552920d7bcd4e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5b28038f6e324f08ac9bb13e15575be2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_25fb06fc31ca45c497ebd6c8e5f6d853.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_222deceaae0748d1927b6cf8a0228f86.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8788/8551/files/ensemble_empirical_mode_decomposition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1378/3203/files/xifajuleji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4096/3751/files/radiographie_rachis_cervical_f_p_3_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8353/0407/files/pneumatic_power_tools.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7351/9269/files/635577497.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6066/6274/files/diparusabiveta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6052/7253/files/vunax.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_off0000a6f2.bin
5fbbe6b12665ad17d3d192ab8fa3ac2be05ad171c7a12364d0b648eae0aeda83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6F2 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b9c4.bin
fa8173c595f533e7fe01aef6189a9570f24ff6942cb85b3c405199c03a8adf1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9C4 15988 bytes