Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e697c1ceca359be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 14:04:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ba88121bb6d3d7997d33096b15eadbb8 SHA-1: 5d69ae95b23c13b80d329a66f937c0081758b9c6 SHA-256: 5e697c1ceca359be6167d734523ca56c55f1b9694f61ff1ce218cdaa4986710d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a 'free download' lure, which aligns with the heuristic findings of a link farm and malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=young+wild+an+free+download
    • http://files.hudsonclassical.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437385/bomuz.pdf
    • http://files.stripesofcourage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452733/vowulegux.pdf
    • http://files.freedomfromcancerchallenge.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636789/fc4a35f826850.pdf
    • http://files.vicenzas-crostoli.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483253/9062675.pdf
    • http://files.f4f-uncdf.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636677/lexejeli_bizutit.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0510/0707/files/kapoped.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0591/0935/files/91140702490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3082/files/82363825932.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1720/6946/files/32272127773.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8713/4882/files/fowevox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51191810805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5759/4016/files/93598475632.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/jidexivuteg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6063/3504/files/45470638908.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5663/6828/files/bakajiwuniragenevibi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004625.bin
276123b813ae25a60c30a37e22db16294726d0cc3dd06a3a95c4cb7bfbd857be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4625 4752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005660.bin
37f9972620af526b8daca96fcad15234c16f48d017ff5691b03ec95205072081
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5660 11608 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007c9b.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C9B 4324 bytes