Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dfcf6885bee8e8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:31:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2f88542b1122b873db938135f20c0d8b SHA-1: ba6b69ed79215c0ce8139bf2d80c6d5b7457ee18 SHA-256: 5dfcf6885bee8e8c9f0e776a92f39ba0da45dc4caf3f5e3bf62dfcdb6b2c16cd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a "Dubai monorail map pdf" and includes the malicious URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic, while the malicious redirector indicates a potential phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=dubai+monorail+map+pdf
    • http://sozikek.whitneyswings.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383478/7032372.pdf
    • http://files.astrotheologyzone.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814097/4ab85.pdf
    • http://files.jasmineforbuncombe.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406510/3735910.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9315/5237/files/wirivujiri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5117/1478/files/xuziruvikal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5664/3739/files/analogias_y_distribuciones_numericas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2422/0321/files/29719679207.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/riwemabosemuridaredexe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0762/2817/files/2150122162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4868/0089/files/10th_new_book_sura_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0802/4985/files/48954995421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0207/6070/files/25686859176.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2310/4160/files/xupaguvogaguwumoreveke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6464/6049/files/goketularutawujax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3888/3485/files/91867361230.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_off000065b4.bin
69bdb907bbac9cb49dfaf01d7a030854e138af0eebd7cecc74f18f6cf917fc3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65B4 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007715.bin
2a10acbf68384e408e34a0c5e3c2fd611d5594c2845b7da12a573212d8c6a8f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7715 10604 bytes