Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bb3cf986cd60196…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 04:41:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dd73addab59aaa1e7b46f59a2da0e18b SHA-1: f7fa8c0bad73861c97503f18a46299d3da99396a SHA-256: 5bb3cf986cd601967ac6a24925b186f692a068225b10d0badf6eef0967521074
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic activities, suggesting a lure. The presence of multiple external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector.

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/wix?keyword=atividades+complementares+anhanguera
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2979/8818/files/inductive_and_deductive_methods_of_research.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2382/6085/files/malayalam_alphabets_with_pictures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7824/5781/files/stock_traders_almanac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8788/6488/files/linofexudizodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6261/5446/files/ping_k15_driver_review.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7613/0718/files/doukyuusei_full_movie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3415/6967/files/81077878141.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83e24f_8427a29aa07143aa8c31ee2f6221d5a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_43940db074194fada2b71d292d73fb8a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f46427_aca54aa76eef49f7a34aa4fd4c89ec18.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9308/5598/files/artificial_intelligence_by_rich_and_knight_full.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5213/7622/files/2pac_greatest_hits_rar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2488/2583/files/mefafojuvegazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5382/5704/files/4968866294.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_off00007440.bin
baa586c3d101f0da9f5a064cdec600a9027d66df930040a08a30e19a1257a2d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7440 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086e7.bin
29c440912b8047966e4c9418ea70e62f4bb5050b9b724a72c3b57867f1117487
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86E7 15216 bytes