Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d635b62f5cf936b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 06:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fb6ecf6bda00f2ea9b9b08b2cb895f74 SHA-1: f442eda9c1a22c15377027b85cd2dee9c26b3f5c SHA-256: 7d635b62f5cf936b305ca99d50f1317812671bb345a8d151c35a61ae0c72318c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector to malicious infrastructure, disguised as a whistleblower complaint. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

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.cc/wb?keyword=whistleblower%20complaint%20pdf%20text
    • http://files.bargeadhesive.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856907/fabagumijow.pdf
    • http://files.shenandoahpiper.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740183/gorusubegaj.pdf
    • http://files.mspledgersclass.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814969/pitofatezowi_kirewogaw_pilobevelew_vobumaz.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3418/9734/files/zutuwozir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6255/0940/files/gaxajitinumeve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5202/2430/files/riximevakomobajetefi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2150/8506/files/xokedab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2047/6828/files/15016108291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7931/0239/files/j4_pro_builds.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6239/4021/files/savep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8909/8907/files/geduwalozetasozomobe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2764/5084/files/24544598162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4311/8495/files/trumpet_tune_henry_purcell.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_off00005e77.bin
faecb23133d6bd0187fbfb986251417bd8ccc270ef812142bd85311525a2e32a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E77 5708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071ca.bin
d3bb4d9d223d941a100419776e903b1098f291914b5cbb6e372188030b70bad8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71CA 10352 bytes