Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fb50542eef53bc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:59:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f119f2ffdefc7881060876e7386510ff SHA-1: 71a8b543a47a448e0d40aadf1ea318bfbee83e1b SHA-256: 5fb50542eef53bc292d57709fcd243c4a1a042958335bd06add852cd162edc31
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a "Kaoss pad manual", directing users to the malicious URL.

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/wb?keyword=kaoss%20pad%20manual
    • http://files.godsredeemingloveintl.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380343/ronufamug.pdf
    • http://files.cmtyfedchurch.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740211/diduna-gagujolamevox.pdf
    • http://files.pioneerpumas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437513/zawutokorabemin-tetejone-xatani-suzibekur.pdf
    • http://files.gisu.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775528/redojoperati.pdf
    • http://files.artcardstang.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871849/kobapowunin-gesepatujewedop.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9227/1519/files/lozawago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/marifurozijuzaledenikegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3853/0965/files/45525033883.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5314/6517/files/fijunedigewulidisiga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1332/2398/files/38024204224.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1059/6765/files/todajonefovatale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4684/4054/files/zegupobid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/54440827626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4211/9592/files/inquiry_into_physics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0242/9593/files/63253702522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2230/3911/files/37609928684.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3179/7668/files/fokoxuzubepuvikisiderabij.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_off0000631d.bin
43dd94d032bb75b325e220200019e019b0949ea445db98539633bce5702509d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x631D 4980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007401.bin
74ed83bb8802e76e4bd8bb8290d9f014b98709e91437640be704f1acf7c56fce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7401 10000 bytes