Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b615495073be429…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-09-13 12:37:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0053395ec7f1f733b0c21b0264c035c4 SHA-1: 0fb4e6b91f7c6ae854860edcb8bcc75af5551034 SHA-256: 5b615495073be4290f5c8a219e3ebf99195519b922fb7de8e53d6cc8e14ae933
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt, likely to distribute malware or phish for credentials.

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/wb?keyword=nyc%20doe%20calendar%202020%20spanish
    • http://files.torrainewalker.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483201/30d6e6d3.pdf
    • http://files.andquirky.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/luxurikexulevajizit.pdf
    • http://files.milescohnrealestate.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398560/c40de7b85.pdf
    • http://files.totalcrane.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871583/357492.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5727/4270/files/video_from_site_safari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tokavurovapipemekimisam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3010/1668/files/esp8266_wifi_module_arduino.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3993/1038/files/batifulubepe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5039/2984/files/76557273246.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/64f9d2_2581dff4e48d425aaf7b9c8c73f1c9a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/585b1d_8b7e5348607d4f3d99443cc41d0ff833.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/23b571_b07c8b57237e4ceb9d408d4a14a529be.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_off00005ecb.bin
1c28296484c687f3b09cac38a6b986abb66e91bf6b7ca4a9d36544101f34861a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ECB 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000718a.bin
68b2cdc412471ed03f4ff5922e3491a1967dd156ce374d60be42fc0938f72930
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x718A 10632 bytes