Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b278b5efe297e10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 10:59:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 55e71266296b3d7b9a8f3d7b741ee4ff SHA-1: 7e4102e73cf732cd6f40c08a1723c289f2874c83 SHA-256: 5b278b5efe297e10f937afee9d48d8eab2ac928c6b5587b7feaf9bb36fedca29
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links that are part of a link farm, with one critical link pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a free VPN, aligning with phishing or scam tactics. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

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.com/pify?keyword=thailand+vpn+free+for+pc
    • http://files.premiertruckparts.ca/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164236/repijidabowuji_luketuzafadu_dudeli_noramasemaga.pdf
    • http://files.rachaeldzikonski.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874204/9630478.pdf
    • http://nuxumuvir.babyg-lash.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775583/1617803.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0167/5939/files/79850149922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1571/6516/files/boribatapinarulakanuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3389/2763/files/acc_cement_annual_report_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7381/4182/files/chrysler_crossfire_srt_6_performance_upgrades.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6555/7671/files/35644888517.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2412/9952/files/braking_distance_formula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8240/7335/files/fakunenugatawujudodujogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0491/1006/files/50713599635.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5727/4270/files/9484530315.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8462/8633/files/felt_bikes_size_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7194/6398/files/64641432293.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_off0000877f.bin
7195b7a69ca2cd2f37dc366ffe8c057c2faff3defc10ba8112d27b454d025161
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x877F 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098bc.bin
d01077cf78181e9718855bf4d0cbb095a75292c5998501031c6be8cf3b81f15c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98BC 10520 bytes