Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 759937e3f6982a37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:10:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e5f0e3a8c8bb097b40bed22c6bb47b5d SHA-1: 5f47cdbadd75f1ceb4bccace4f60ac928e7dadef SHA-256: 759937e3f6982a37e793ba00d0d1edd97f46a1e6d026fb548546581db94908be
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=speedy+current+affairs+august+2019+pdf`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded PDF links. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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=speedy+current+affairs+august+2019+pdf
    • http://files.veropest.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606745/mapis.pdf
    • http://bamasutob.frompapagod.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406086/sexudipupijadipe.pdf
    • http://files.mccarranferguson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437418/badetilalikison.pdf
    • http://dugon.therocksm.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740414/josoripigimotodejoxe.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5244/9435/files/pitofakomigugevanas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0649/2823/files/sexazogojode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4994/3202/files/mizevolexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2785/1422/files/jugifax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4349/4807/files/75033901162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3444/2908/files/69141152221.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2944/5273/files/bagging_and_boosting.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gidawibozifuniji.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_off00004fac.bin
c49bcb73ab33b5e8ca224f6d7fffa5c7f578f5eae04e849674af2da33b8b0a4e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FAC 5976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000641e.bin
2bd4204d2d7d21235a9599cb5135112daad8d6528aadad3c0272607b6447104c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x641E 9896 bytes