Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b745a9c935a3665…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 12:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 789c5c1ce7dde041799e9ce3387b2642 SHA-1: a7104523e5236802183471c6bca005d56c7fc0dd SHA-256: 5b745a9c935a3665d789ce1432266a22437c24080d6cd1078d2e661ac030f7bd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=international+organization+for+migration+report+2017'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=international+organization+for+migration+report+2017
    • http://files.savouryspoon.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682585/dedinipabud_xogamujusab.pdf
    • http://files.lockmangenetics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775383/nizejab.pdf
    • http://rubilo.agbio-inc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683130/316ed0b4faced.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8850/1143/files/guia_completa_calistenia_street_workout.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5249/8070/files/bajogubalij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1841/2451/files/23141176146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5350/4917/files/porivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/9260/9943/files/blender_2._79_shortcuts_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8005/5958/files/isomeria_dos_alcanos_alcenos_e_alcinos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5197/3799/files/division_long_method_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5200/6552/files/1531435691.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2962/4992/files/bluestacks_para_android_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3864/4123/files/chrome_linux_ubuntu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2149/2643/files/taxation_and_land_reform_in_the_philippines.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_off00006772.bin
b12ceafc2f8f8704aaf5f2476ab720842bf9c81364b77d40315dc29fe294732c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6772 5436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079f1.bin
312ee8a7da4179f9a06d1deb88ad16e26e81694a27d0c6e2207e3becdad44e66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79F1 10260 bytes