Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b47b3b6901929ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:49:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 99805f11c5966666e797b786e14a3bb2 SHA-1: a643e981ddb2cccf921f27f0bea26b119de0fb3e SHA-256: 5b47b3b6901929ad42274aa0fc17364bdffb47ec8823c7ad78d10346a2d6b83b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically a URL designed to exploit search engine optimization tactics. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to employee ID templates and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=free+employee+id+card+template+microsoft+word
    • http://files.heartnhands.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681210/fotitobupomumiz.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5233/5255/files/rexiseremogaxakuzipak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0532/0088/files/instabeauty_photo_editor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8520/9507/files/asepsia_y_antisepsia_en_cirugia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6794/0765/files/lerodegabim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4166/7734/files/how_is_climate_different_from_weather_answer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6693/2902/files/87042205751.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9892/2392/files/fobopulezinoxawozizumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8697/6926/files/dagujolebiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3055/2474/files/bobina_electrica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3426/3199/files/92945211984.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3482/9222/files/vadigivabepifibibe.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_off00005a2a.bin
76e8e27f86a17453ebe1e3af3d291aeab701d62e3126ed5d8d8705f0177dd8b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A2A 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cb0.bin
2ba601f7c49f5009a782b7705a44ce79b00938521e9ea5f52237743bd59531f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CB0 9828 bytes