Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bb361e12745c07c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6a024850124d63893ee6b6e887c0b92 SHA-1: a15b278f775eaae34fbc14a044e3d7d465e82df6 SHA-256: 5bb361e12745c07c8cd2514d86ecc2d4e34813cc66cbb2a3270334c9bb96011f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a prominent link that redirects to a malicious URL, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Fisher investments' and a 'retirement plan PDF', suggesting a phishing lure. 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.cc/wix?keyword=fisher+investments+15+minute+retirement+plan+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5149/9170/files/tovojodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4626/3201/files/ikan_demersal_adalah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0970/9976/files/99356917917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2499/8819/files/pawedovibiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8868/8790/files/93124371825.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7584/3736/files/cavallino_treporti_eventi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7228/2008/files/somumetofaxadafunajuwodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7134/0698/files/dutotagadufuwixagimasiw.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d7ba0f_e775a54e62bf476bba0724c516361b6e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/48f461_b5ee21b230a7438ea7b45cab6701ca05.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8296/1311/files/spider_man_2_psp_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3839/8869/files/gimp_fonts_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4646/0830/files/pobisapaterekuto.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_off000079ce.bin
46946caa0598fd640c053a3e3fc60517bf870fc7ad43407e824a2680109750ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79CE 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c4a.bin
3e31e90d68c263273df304e9772c7fc6df2be3d0a2beb8dd717ec53dab5e912d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C4A 10580 bytes