Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e3a4b1c213ceaf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 16:37:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec71b6726b4270bffc2d172dd22fa170 SHA-1: 7daaf31cf11bcda90385ee3eb504045e05417190 SHA-256: 5e3a4b1c213ceaf010cc81217743630c10af27ae6616c4c86b73275fc11a87b5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a mass of external links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bubble+trouble+3+game', which is flagged as malicious. The presence of numerous PDF links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute 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=bubble+trouble+3+game
    • http://files.wisdomoftheages.biz/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398253/7070521.pdf
    • http://lexazoxuf.fanfareprints.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740249/4652075.pdf
    • http://files.idontknowwhatimdoing.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775220/muzavurekabe.pdf
    • http://penizili.robicheauxart.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/7204243.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/72438278193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3234/4736/files/HTTP_UPLOADSNACK._COM_RCCLN3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8453/0343/files/this_egg_shines_in_the_moonlight.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6521/2066/files/market_analysis_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3724/5085/files/96543792181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4622/files/90476913613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0721/2694/files/xarazibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8010/5630/files/bank_branch_manager_job_description.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8118/6971/files/dish_tv_guide_fox_news.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9316/4181/files/ledudimafurufidenivobupo.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_off00005196.bin
5d14f642ca33fc4c6353cd486a359bd47d07629e04214ad47422d67f37b87d4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5196 5180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006321.bin
ab6c10744b8b0f12095e4b37984483079cc7c7cd89dcaa3466d7742bb95787f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6321 10264 bytes