Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c39551ef3d49522…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 05:05:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2844b2da7f6d7a2356fbc7baaa2da098 SHA-1: 99e1800330d5e13e0c01fe3cda0ca4325e6f6704 SHA-256: 5c39551ef3d495229b009d3ba3cca35262283ff66870faaa9150d1ae93833ab1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam campaign designed to lead users to potentially harmful 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.ru/pify?keyword=gamerz+lounge+android+app
    • http://files.kelseymedeiros.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070317/09fbf9a.pdf
    • http://fidufide.jensensrvpark.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857758/lulazerodi_topofigubopopu.pdf
    • http://komaz.tommainwebsite.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856158/xudebevironadoreri.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/pobaxidavabixobupananagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97503793953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3220/2651/files/xuxokomaje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0425/4615/files/59750171615.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0691/0876/files/searching_and_sorting_algorithms_in_data_structure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1762/3957/files/evermotion_archmodels_41.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4180/0860/files/bafaxelumowe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4595/1400/files/39286188312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4691/8551/files/social_factors_affecting_consumer_buying_behaviour.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9293/2763/files/76418515211.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1748/3934/files/30680234643.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_off00005db7.bin
5bba133374e5896fc14077687fd9d97959f641bcee1e88054745aa6db597d7dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DB7 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f48.bin
4b38367fce1b3daf985dd075ee8560b862f48dc281b9f3ece28f069ccc53e364
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F48 10604 bytes