Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7125198d372e5e72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-09-02 06:53:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 55d127e4eba814acc0e45c1052f0b357 SHA-1: f55626c459d13c4899d8c92097c963461780729f SHA-256: 7125198d372e5e72830140cbf5fef52324290f5a9cbae6e426239f4928a83267
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains a lure to install a browser extension or update, indicated by the 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic and the embedded URL pointing to a redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the lure suggest an attempt to deliver a malicious payload, potentially via JavaScript exploitation within the PDF.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=firefox+42+full+version
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5296/6812/files/gukujafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1659/3312/files/nipuzifijujaso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3695/8104/files/82307667091.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1061/1605/files/ziludax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1102/9667/files/fashion_trend_report_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0918/5688/files/gibifudaburefexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6321/3209/files/pinusutemagoborum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5619/1893/files/9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3127/3365/files/37483527295.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6499/1649/files/95739914888.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_off00005ca6.bin
3457f530d9e014f3c8da59c220d25df6dfeee254ac3771203252d50ea91212bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CA6 4856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d51.bin
2d6833fc1f4c5e5309a92c7488962665d14bb769cb3e0adb3753860369b55388
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D51 11584 bytes