Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 853b91be735ff025…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 18:32:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 27a5ec9b73cce389b424fb939d64e820 SHA-1: 39e11a207f2077379c04b55a35dd9b6396689a35 SHA-256: 853b91be735ff0251b96aa1a4793c2894f3921da0a1f28968092edf56eb43c13
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure related to 'master pdf editor' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic.

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/pify?keyword=master+pdf+editor+blogspot
    • http://xuneturon.nicolabarsaleau.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739430/2e5bb.pdf
    • http://files.creativeescapeworkshops.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696598/pajesunisokof.pdf
    • http://pusazivaw.fisimpson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740510/7698613.pdf
    • http://tizeniz.jingwilliams.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/bekolatow.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5005/0460/files/75886253809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8262/8766/files/90483105699.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2988/3048/files/methods_and_channels_of_communication.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0374/8263/files/24796444538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5570/1398/files/telecharger_les_journaux_algeriens_d_aujourd_hui_en.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3994/7932/files/mumulokixuxaxija.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3989/1357/files/kant_aufklrung.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7181/3285/files/understanding_symbolic_logic_virginia_klenk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9786/files/gefaru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/53523883189.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5460/files/diwomi.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_off000062b8.bin
165332db8c05116acf17a2a6f944794dd566119aa495facf70cafe23c737ddfd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62B8 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007509.bin
6cd2fee4c562dedcba0dfbeb8a1c131ee5864d53b57c5f4222b372701c631f0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7509 10080 bytes