Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 638d12ba88c2c280…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 21:25:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 195c1cf5e6d5189afbe05daec95ef1fe SHA-1: 747f07aee1e066a0410128cc5b02bb6f2fe92bf3 SHA-256: 638d12ba88c2c28068f7bf55b6aadc09c539267eeddb46ae748b5abc19dc80ae
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'bodybuilding workout songs' and a URL that appears to be a lure. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to drive traffic 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.com/pify?keyword=bodybuilding+workout+songs
    • http://files.beckysthirdcoastbling.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815008/83a1031180e4a1.pdf
    • http://files.tonchairs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437283/6058089.pdf
    • http://jelobutat.total-insurancesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407155/zitexu-lafowifabijijer.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xogasetixudaxaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7248/6564/files/89330492637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8494/7357/files/72092174266.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26450106566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7234/6526/files/jadikan_file_jadi_satu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7713/0647/files/engineering_mechanics_statics_meriam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4021/6987/files/carry_on_jatta_2_filmywap_movie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4061/3286/files/working_capital_requirement_calculation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4914/7803/files/99480584725.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_off00006077.bin
3fbf480a134ea783fb01f6f5cb7fa2e2f1094868bf3d78177f71187e716e5fb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6077 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007268.bin
e92b7262dc9d1a70ca70c1bfab54e5f909cbf5102ffd58c115f29c9bac50173e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7268 10420 bytes