Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bee832961fad56c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 15:41:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b4f3ead2ccdc9f30ffd7219665457a98 SHA-1: 51de0f9e4c3b8b4fca92dd2f591be86cdeab0fe9 SHA-256: 5bee832961fad56cc72da17fca7ab361be8095abeae806bab5b7e0c5bb06ba8f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'expanding and combining sentences worksheets' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of many external PDF links also indicates a link farm, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content.

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=expanding+and+combining+sentences+worksheets
    • http://kowik.chelseaborgman.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814411/ddcdbaa7a122271.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2785/5522/files/winakekexofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7505/1413/files/wusunukadif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9085/3531/files/29333249595.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0469/0581/files/ever_never_already_yet_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2174/5822/files/66252961063.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9588/2918/files/wulanaxavojusimu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3775/3493/files/podanuregavukixipuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4653/5322/files/sibasudatojazisodopo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tiwimuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5764/2648/files/vejiga_neurogenica_manejo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0223/2983/files/pekapimeg.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_off0000686d.bin
d4143ad91dbdb1e9bdc7b21978892dec0361314c8948a105ed8768c838c04f03
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x686D 5776 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bff.bin
b790c487ebe4df8a9ed400912d981984cbccfb51c8ae48538672ef182080d996
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BFF 10192 bytes