Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d5bd63f30af3a16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 03:20:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 43dfca750f7def3477aee5a6ba05740f SHA-1: 86a5c5891016d66c453920dfe8bd0106d7eba95e SHA-256: 5d5bd63f30af3a16f459d2189bb6eb4eef1aa822577c745aed4948aebcfc81f6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector to malicious infrastructure, disguised as search results for a technical book. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous embedded links suggests a SEO poisoning or link farm attack. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains a URL that is part of the link farm.

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=lectures+on+quantum+mechanics+weinberg+pdf
    • http://files.tennisunderthestars.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406412/b9800cb.pdf
    • http://files.karenflanneryphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482819/vinikokijuwekiwos.pdf
    • http://files.sueannecelebrant.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437351/26ff42c.pdf
    • http://files.artbysarabardin.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776602/gusimorutojemuro.pdf
    • http://files.zoewilsonnutrition.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437636/1016373.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1384/8733/files/bifunigivegevinak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1030/0831/files/barney_and_friends_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9776/8614/files/dezinozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7798/3653/files/zikifijipinunod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tikumakosesik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6552/3870/files/6419308021.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/76566610696.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8076/0990/files/90535637615.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8027/8426/files/dujugifevibopezo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sigejorivuzogekos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7970/3451/files/39013503310.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_off000067af.bin
f5fa98ca6cdbe2b0975136deae054b47e6a607ffd4d33ed777c4de34074c52a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67AF 5836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b74.bin
537f418548554fb8a880127145b6548aa31c055be6a80f5dc2000eb942ea5ffe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B74 11240 bytes