Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b50f2c87ada4ee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 03:24:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0ff41ec24637edecb9b021930f5222ad SHA-1: 6843462047a2ad756d9d450a04abc868cb17ed9e SHA-256: 5b50f2c87ada4ee7151c0cd6d9cc5acd5c0fc76418f1e3ee73c822d71d822a89
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 a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results and direct users to malicious sites. 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=anesthesia+machine+circuit+pdf
    • http://vejuma.piecesearlylearning.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606407/nepesabadekopagep.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0449/1936/files/binolemoxax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/6816/1953/files/animals_funny_photos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4015/2479/files/introduction_to_functional_grammar_halliday.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6913/6280/files/nrsv_catholic_bible_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8344/7966/files/3d_animation_maker_draw_cartoon_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/paxotaxazojulilinitulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6230/3637/files/potholes_reservoir_fishing_report_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4971/1781/files/berezina_tesson.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6534/3141/files/9631703629.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8827/1773/files/conjunction_and_preposition_exercises.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_off00005fdd.bin
88b1a1cec9cb45f3e15128651160126fe4867d5229a6c76c8a3aedf8bb4d3f13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FDD 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071dc.bin
cf657dac67a1e623628a0e84e37e48b51138bdc00eaf8cdc11f6bed70b3b4c89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71DC 10400 bytes