Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5feb2f24375a71fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 09:21:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 385a97d6d77e32407278de1edf2df56d SHA-1: 6dd9d464c7fd1034b91bf042fbd12e01b79130f6 SHA-256: 5feb2f24375a71fb93556411413b5b2771ecda41ed218b9827db982361b2eef7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of multiple external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt.

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=law+of+agency+in+malaysia+pdf
    • http://files.fatrocktile.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970009/5551288.pdf
    • http://files.catalystipf.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453715/07007fe80341c5.pdf
    • http://noxami.salvajemotorcycles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453278/999dfaa3f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5702/9024/files/vasaluz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8231/7975/files/44048462915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3730/1653/files/muwolijizutusaduvopeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3294/2504/files/xudaxim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4237/1741/files/zulomisamirema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9014/0581/files/40350149545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9645/files/kaantasan_ng_pang_uri_worksheet_for_grade_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2265/4362/files/10135979009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7692/0220/files/k_michelle_son.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7446/2631/files/58170538555.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4970/4854/files/pavuzuk.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_off0000709b.bin
3275146e1269dd9c82ea348835e4fac1a0c25ab0d0cf2fe83208e0c1b645656f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x709B 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008373.bin
dd20e7fd967f4cdba97ccdcb699ef2941fc2d62b0fafea431e302b27bc482875
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8373 10144 bytes