Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d0379154d26f92a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 22:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9b770a7bb4e1b5579caa111e4a453964 SHA-1: bb3429171561791d3197809ef5d3de5910651129 SHA-256: 5d0379154d26f92a7e6005ae0ebff08304bb489e606df7516aca79a9019fa774
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a redirector to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a movie, suggesting a phishing or content-luring attack. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to lead users to harmful 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.ru/pify?keyword=minority+report+movie+free++in+tamil
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_942c5375e538440f8284ddcaf11f1afd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ceddf993e4b54ec79a7a96f85822c09f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/38eac1_5c17bc6727ee4771b092961c14dd47ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f197_7137577bba744b1fb052ac116b15c90b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/575363_420d13fb07a84fd2a9dce7b851387395.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_62ead4b5d7db4e8381977a53c9133e96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6924eb_565c28d70f33466499b428faa5b38535.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1de29_d8a97471395f4c6ab64cd2e16fe2960a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cd1db809a18e444b985757bc68cd7cfc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8209/5519/files/bedidanuteliganapimelam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73807437975.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_off0000898c.bin
afca46d7c29e7cafadbbafbc6ed093d3873c1e76d82b038627d84dcc5830ef9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x898C 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009ab4.bin
17caa2f774f2813b99fbe457b4d232e0df6c6b1a237bc44fc408b21e1a143842
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AB4 10352 bytes