Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cb6efdc0fe02797…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 09:36:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 259c5ae1c38ed79033e13e34b83d3e61 SHA-1: baed773fbd584ac7066a388a6eaa86c02a714213 SHA-256: 5cb6efdc0fe02797cfa0bdc25177901147851ae9bbda50414ceb970a8cc7586d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary malicious URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt, likely to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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.cc/pify?keyword=bronte+jane+eyre+pdf
    • http://files.milledgevillejaycees.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712623/277192.pdf
    • http://files.sacredheartlibrary.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815753/tawazevedekuxow.pdf
    • http://files.savanfinancial.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815767/ad5bde.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4655/2227/files/33465675432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0866/2440/files/event_horizon_torrent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8991/2218/files/62203291033.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/xefefenuma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96951977507.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4638/8380/files/52072611536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8368/5274/files/42578575545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7658/2552/files/75893931458.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6525/2769/files/68918927627.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5595/5619/files/76509045860.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5876/4696/files/worijakifomumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6666/1800/files/pejebivev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5673/4109/files/85117475086.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_off00008edd.bin
30f72c04496e8e4a52e7461eb76af8aec46e633d9d66adbbf68573003b7f30cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EDD 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a030.bin
71dcedeae873245a319eabf0fe339503266e93ed80a798de2af06fb6a8afd2cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA030 10204 bytes