Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eef7b4989a2bcfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 16:42:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 324243b77dfc421efc4d4f39eb5c8a93 SHA-1: 2792d4b6df75b87a293c586996c48267962b4eac SHA-256: 6eef7b4989a2bcfcb85361a47fbfd6853f96cba616fcba32469017fb5bb51a9e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, including a primary redirector URL that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Castrol 5w30 edge pdf' and the authoring application, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

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.ru/pify?keyword=castrol+5w30+edge+pdf
    • http://files.donnasboy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636655/7e2c731f0b9a9.pdf
    • http://files.burmusik.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681885/xetemedakaji-zesuzuzimed-junawizevona-suxutuvixane.pdf
    • http://files.brysonfinney.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871690/652255720c77a24.pdf
    • http://files.japhotos.me/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969346/91b06dffa.pdf
    • http://files.tynesidebookclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813582/6424547.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2778/3080/files/39143600460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4648/3606/files/47108327809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1376/files/2304621284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3373/9932/files/gitedamarowodugusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1878/7736/files/allahabad_state_university_time_table_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3549/0461/files/32973546394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4449/4760/files/asturias_tab_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9902/7611/files/29862419180.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0142/files/sutilifizukeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9671/1069/files/20275441870.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_off0000512e.bin
ecfc007a47ce2526b0d59e9964f31de2bb4f10a7cb640772ece5b3343338e62a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x512E 5636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006478.bin
e8bc7e439191602a5bf6219d79860a9bd432ae7dc67b2c94621aa768d69188ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6478 10216 bytes