Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e5b8d8009978af3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 13:44:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5d2f82d0a5fb9faa084f401460fc05e8 SHA-1: 79aeec208a5654b5aad3ebfd9fc4c1ce1614ed18 SHA-256: 5e5b8d8009978af32f83f926890190a4d337273bfab88202643615e58763b68f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=brightsign+xt1143+user+manual', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a user manual and the malicious URL, indicating a lure to encourage clicks. The presence of numerous links and the identified malicious redirector strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

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.com/pify?keyword=brightsign+xt1143+user+manual
    • http://files.stronghandsenterprises.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382387/kufun_rejakudixi_xixidup.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7024/9374/files/5912506832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2603/9452/files/belikapotebimofuvaxupag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2200/3872/files/derecho_latinoamericano_cbc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2710/2887/files/wimawobatovawav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3742/3776/files/lanitopadajubawuboj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5713/5257/files/xibuxepilubipowegokudabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1205/5463/files/xolojexosadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9359/9132/files/73573003785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7063/6710/files/66570548515.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4089/7181/files/wekav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5498/0505/files/joromasusumewijorenake.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_off00005fd6.bin
2a55101f533ade01e21810f8e39502444a69fd274945d7bdb9ecf9af7ec6ded3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD6 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007280.bin
7c13e922538cc21d8476ab2d0413e4a9d666d90e1015a870df93d62f8d4c7bf3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7280 10332 bytes