Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cdb4c0c3a7e3478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 19:07:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 56f0403f708d78b7562424bfa6f202ec SHA-1: 0bba434e0fc933ba177adeb6a97979f7c5e618bc SHA-256: 5cdb4c0c3a7e3478605d3aa0a02a2563bbdad2eff6c7765db52dbe87b95a4b98
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'Fortnite season 5 xp guide' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to drive traffic to malicious sites. The presence of many external PDF links also indicates a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or distributing further 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.ru/pify?keyword=fortnite+season+5+xp+guide
    • http://files.barriegleamteam.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695525/5544295.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1474/1413/files/ludepapixodedarawawabakod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1516/0487/files/34984321799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5563/5880/files/57262892606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8600/2838/files/fiwotukuderobaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4227/4454/files/pursuit_of_holiness.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1655/2605/files/771356085.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6552/3862/files/job_interview_question_strength_and_weakness_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62374455636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2384/3996/files/vizigaxejikifemorope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9094/3902/files/case_files_internal_medicine_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3105/0915/files/resort_brochure_design.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_off00006a76.bin
8f57bc78033b636cecc26256f2fa40b958c51433f88dc9db4a7c8b7d6ee57bb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A76 5244 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c5c.bin
710ed11ad41504430fc389bf08eed8e92d7235274a0dfc39d21b7b9aebe5aa67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C5C 10360 bytes