Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fea8f9846f935cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 03:09:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d9f81878f92b78f23aceba27f99dc471 SHA-1: 86c2e1ce00502d3dc7b260b4e1c4b58b28064bca SHA-256: 5fea8f9846f935cb24e4aa13d85d5d209b52a18e8d60fa584839e1615f7b27f9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to known malicious redirector infrastructure, as indicated by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a 'banking awareness quiz' lure, which is a common social engineering tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content.

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/pify?keyword=banking+awareness+quiz+2020+pdf
    • http://risazi.garykayeillustration.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/563c3.pdf
    • http://files.cccoalitionac.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856170/jejuwozosazeluj.pdf
    • http://files.oubta.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453109/kijojizufi_wajufulosuv_fonelimatodi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3343/6066/files/finoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1222/7225/files/wimixutorus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0927/2990/files/97066384652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5827/4205/files/tudemomajijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3624/5142/files/sezijijufuxolimipibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8980/3941/files/20582052844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8217/7946/files/negidujupegojexet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8565/1358/files/vegevebilesotiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9162/4097/files/lalofikagabap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1907/4722/files/72498789134.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4389/5966/files/lg_washing_machine_repair_manual.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_off00005de9.bin
4bb702a213475151ac974f1c6dbd6a86a8385234098452c7d6a20d0d3973521d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DE9 5832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071e7.bin
30dc17eaf0ec26611010e73985760b165b6ee43781f26b6b3c7ddd4b440714c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71E7 10272 bytes