Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5edec998975e55e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-07-27 18:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a3c13a74e8174c8645826725512464ab SHA-1: c8f0a4ec953146153e51d2b940a42991bbed28cb SHA-256: 5edec998975e55e5224451ac23d070c2123f6bcddacd854b8d53e138a9b93b6d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier as malicious and contains a link to a known redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for an Android developer job vacancy. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic, likely intended to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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=android+developer+job+vacancy+in+chennai
    • http://files.delsurvey.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437017/68030ea4c96c83.pdf
    • http://files.vicjuniorxcski.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740062/4514434.pdf
    • http://files.storeoutsideyourdoor.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682113/pabojeginujilabepax.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xiguxalenagidofivixonagez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2004/0866/files/wawaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/99923340171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5897/8207/files/97265081693.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9304/1059/files/42140047114.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5670/1348/files/63571535624.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7319/1580/files/lizezotuwaxutega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6621/9941/files/rivolelorolal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3813/8783/files/luzavopigududupekupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9635/0624/files/migirumugufif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5397/2633/files/25525576935.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_off00005500.bin
730db1711d5cb09a085deb21aef74cc142da37b2ab8636ca904e289dba95a0c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5500 5060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000661f.bin
ce3808cbd5c605abfdfc21b5a86a4d79373c26172bcb9777c622d92435304a4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x661F 10240 bytes