Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65e2f6e4175f7eea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 17:18:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ab3ab82e49022b86d2583f6705645b73 SHA-1: f03340878c976dd0212968898ad2a02011da7498 SHA-256: 65e2f6e4175f7eeac4c010a4e34d6cb7ba347d80f86d13fe9e1b45d72f059c89
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a social engineering lure to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, likely to redirect the user to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=let+the+right+one+in+torrent
    • http://files.harnesslead.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740044/22a95a7fb15f0.pdf
    • http://files.someoneelsemovie.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383377/9d757af73d0277e.pdf
    • http://files.shannaforpa.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/a0d91.pdf
    • http://files.amomentintimeartwork.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407698/1423294.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0811/4340/files/vadivajafemipot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1327/5811/files/oxford_discover_5_workbook_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2259/7800/files/crane_operator_test_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5467/7662/files/26980179922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9124/files/lanatojumofopasuzed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2282/8198/files/64803904305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0346/9221/files/zanepimevolirewukavabujak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7962/3071/files/22317153769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8295/7478/files/josejiwamar.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_off0000e3bb.bin
88cb0f190d0f6cd1b5ee69b6e59d30c25fd84ff49409657872e88c0fc4d307f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3BB 4468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2e9.bin
260eb40c41978479670a73fa9a5e75231b5f243e523c9a86043efcc04f23e0f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E9 10752 bytes