Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ebb1ecc11b771a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-15 10:31:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 97f56d3aa94de00642daed95b8a608f1 SHA-1: 8302e238af1c4535fa4b24761860c7d4b739cf3e SHA-256: 5ebb1ecc11b771a332a45c65ee4071b0d01cdeacbbcb48a73079f9118f5d0a0d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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/wb?keyword=short%20unseen%20passage%20for%20class%209%20pdf
    • http://wefiw.whatnextshelly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858530/purivigudo-naxapu.pdf
    • http://files.maryballdar.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382092/c02afee6.pdf
    • http://nevej.biotechashok.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739591/dejonokitux-kidesipujudi.pdf
    • http://files.rebuildinglauren.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380995/d54bab41c5.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9727/6064/files/78572144468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9212/3560/files/14260956488.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0470/7491/files/joramogazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bizisumexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0151/1068/files/borderlands_pre_sequel_athena_heads.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0321/3984/files/zoxijuzukud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9228/6363/files/70573297961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6509/files/apneia_do_sono.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_off00007d2f.bin
4bfd45b8a37d5063cff0c013a5b44788cb85142deba5e65e06e8a468d7570f5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D2F 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009075.bin
d78ce0b575a1b9a9115015d6d3198879704c8d3d0fa168b7a13acfd914f1fde1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9075 13280 bytes