Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bc29face901af72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-07-09 10:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-24
MD5: 53450a905bcf59d105f62ef4e785110c SHA-1: 1fe2763c19fafa23aaa1d7d0b4a695587360f3f2 SHA-256: 5bc29face901af727bb0daddfdc5b7160c171243f144fbab68106f44fde1cd5a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains embedded links and text that mimic a free PDF to Word conversion service, directing users to a redirector URL. This redirector then leads to a link farm of other PDF files, likely intended to host or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple heuristic firings related to malicious redirectors and link farms supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=convertir+pdf+a+word+descargar+gratis+online In PDF document text
    • http://files.superiormachineandfab.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815154/5810631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sugarvedelmiesmunkavedelmikft.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740256/5792838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.customerfocusedlearning.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738814/bavajesapamukogobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.seetheworld.tours/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815961/bawifutopite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heartlandjungians.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776841/ziniruper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.everettqualitylandscaping.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071035/8315037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dylanness.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969819/860cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jbandersenart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408344/9494649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.writerwadekelly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874529/9574220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://porefikumo.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/56281703750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetaxuvewaf.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/24154765549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeluzonodifi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/7294357964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/siwizobudavegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37872338034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dutevitijenunolekegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sikotifukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zenafepejeviwasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zutazalurofesavasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000500d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x500D 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 5d6de9aff978f6bf5381c64b9327bc729181a766fa0d71eb3506c8ef62959b98
font_01_sfnt_off00006227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6227 9480 bytes
SHA-256: c30e64d6db8cca2f441b00a391bc8422de3c26bdfd2ca7731f819cf52161fb55