Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5becb799393d160d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 06:38:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: df41591eb394abfb8fd80de41837b19e SHA-1: f567168aa3e1a6cb679d9d517b7b6e44be334c85 SHA-256: 5becb799393d160dbbfd2e4b027a3e48801233adeb04358fc4b4ff0f06481a6a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is identified as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure related to academic or technical content to encourage clicks.

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.ru/wb?keyword=performance%20modeling%20of%20automated%20manufacturing%20systems%20pdf
    • http://files.libertyeliasmiller.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681690/wiwula.pdf
    • http://files.myislandmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739892/d31720d.pdf
    • http://files.chickenmullfestival.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739084/6564978.pdf
    • http://files.apdcwa.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738673/wawulabuwaw.pdf
    • http://files.rebalancewithbianca.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437523/somabexexa.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8609/4248/files/189687422.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5253/0845/files/vefodinikase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4722/2422/files/28541224596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6055/1070/files/baxukatadatuwakajo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8400/5032/files/79699574428.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4650/files/65533522213.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1230/9670/files/41667997270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1744/4264/files/7925105486.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9000/1572/files/fetujulatozo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5655/4394/files/dukajatirowovifudonad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0711/4391/files/welelifijexupudite.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3505/7559/files/78209489803.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_off000044ee.bin
c6db73f1d387c3bd7c58d1f1b19f06f4ddd26ca56894de4dde4caa295a68e040
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44EE 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057d9.bin
7c86ef3d28b7686adb38b238eedf87d3bfb097e818b7b1c12f83d3b88f793bb8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57D9 10036 bytes