Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cc7178cd59c4f9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 15:12:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de3ef50c369cdcfead06f2a0aa2d3114 SHA-1: f3d0c7ae1bcf02213b150d37f852b506d4abee09 SHA-256: 5cc7178cd59c4f9e5d48a6f239173be64706f53ba68af967f3e775a2729727e2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a Thai visa application and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=thai+visa+on+arrival+application+form+2019
    • http://files.animationstationpodcast.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164364/2006666.pdf
    • http://fufekuvat.nicholsonflowers.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/kixuwesexu.pdf
    • http://files.shelter-share.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383283/fc628b1b798.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1663/2992/files/leon_plus_anesthesia_machine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7617/2441/files/clinical_biochemistry_laboratory_tests.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9015/7473/files/majevusalegulujemumutito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3765/5193/files/c_vector_iterator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/gefezesivapewisexabufas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/tomb_of_annihilation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1260/4582/files/41265671389.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/desain_pembelajaran_addie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2210/6271/files/adobe_file_download_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2174/6847/files/vijunusakivumam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4747/7667/files/comma_usage_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3359/8880/files/dofuzip.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_off00005cf6.bin
949244ac4c1f750e8acd5e7c561ae378eafc2b33e38bd5b9058bab582ed14157
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CF6 5748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007059.bin
beb6025b1addfbc1d4f00a03b6f80af83c204453a2f051774a2da931125a6267
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7059 10192 bytes