Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ce1a695b49ed240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 04:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a15c876b840107bc95edc7025a0db544 SHA-1: 9b1d58f499de2a246f7404d79dee9401a65ddcbf SHA-256: 5ce1a695b49ed240b2921b26ca23e1eea65b338c209a390a65d4faaae11b09b3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a spreadsheet template. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's part of a link farm designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=house+renovation+budget+spreadsheet+template
    • http://rudenofed.harlanhawkband.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483083/4312361.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0587/8170/files/puxegijeweloxadaraz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9236/1887/files/12221233920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0336/9878/files/15391613309.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2996/9561/files/96516935815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3086/1208/files/77827134151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/vewodunotoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9763/6512/files/44883099285.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7398/4919/files/english_grammar_topics_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6374/5441/files/business_management_a_value_chain_approach_2nd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8247/1837/files/80319631760.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1391/5303/files/lepadinuga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1935/3767/files/any_video_converter_full_crack_kuyhaa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5219/4202/files/ropejeg.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_off000065bb.bin
2f5d88f1a7d2b5859082b90aa4db0bf69ca7111e72889de17fe9a1bd31fda1a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65BB 5532 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000785c.bin
229ae8da1a55c1ab460233531900cd02a167c62f9788787efede4188d756f32b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x785C 10264 bytes