Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 846dae5066439d63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 03:17:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 30dc9ccde1760d836cc0fb53b01205e4 SHA-1: af1dcdaff7f0b3dd2398f5cb6b831d3e8ff6ee36 SHA-256: 846dae5066439d63c1195075b3559eb4972d6e5597009b7d56dac5e864f3a0f5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirectors or link farms, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for 'NFL injury report week 5 updates'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially harmful websites.

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=nfl+injury+report+week+5+updates
    • http://damemawo.bettyvaughan.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/kedidoxi.pdf
    • http://files.applin.glyncor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454521/mezed.pdf
    • http://jepotofub.bckaleidoscope.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/4971f1.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3983/4780/files/namakiwokotawopiwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75555741983.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4534/2619/files/wigak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3884/2779/files/beroromeligukonejukur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5107/4214/files/50326402338.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3097/9495/files/italic_font_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7102/0964/files/john_deere_sx95_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8455/files/26213697908.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7108/6492/files/jirevegutuvezifef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/91489653134.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9442/4232/files/malaria_treatment_failure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0382/2755/files/61600001695.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_off0000621d.bin
5695484b6e6b09200675a90c7527dfba8cad769c463077cc45aace7689afe71e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x621D 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074e5.bin
a0f9e6961f8cbffe890d370e388533c07c3cfd2e9736750f62d6f840431e2ff2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E5 10760 bytes