Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b231c9d0a748a38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 23:07:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 74ccc84970505c46751bdefaeed75397 SHA-1: 5d119993b090f9e34b66bcbeee6dfcd5c40da0e0 SHA-256: 5b231c9d0a748a38ed039fea6a53ef249d30ebc35b943723966a4a109f06e38a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for 'biology articles pdf'. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of many external links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially compromised or malicious 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.ru/pify?keyword=biology+articles+pdf
    • http://files.rfgamebirdsrawpetfood.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636947/dosotewebubimakesi.pdf
    • http://files.pregnancyparentingboulder.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070230/6360972.pdf
    • http://files.capitolsteamandclean.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/1110e.pdf
    • http://files.ashweather.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856456/1f2ae9.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8068/6497/files/story_of_an_hour_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0238/7867/files/ragapuxasejek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5479/1846/files/55656076770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9378/4728/files/65686136357.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0469/0581/files/gitiritadoxomowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4345/4102/files/15861896346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1778/0896/files/likojobisufuledudixax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2338/5247/files/degobik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9276/3039/files/writing_academic_english_third_edition_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7977/7952/files/xebasagofifubitupapamepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1221/7241/files/jovelaxumodoso.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_off00006d6b.bin
a27c76ae3ca2594504d03ab223191f113d420f1970d256ca39b1f7f09dce5614
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D6B 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008027.bin
43c9db3a6e4c15e64f6d013e8a72bbdafd68a44e4f7420b042a6d9ae32d9f212
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8027 10384 bytes