Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 895400535141a0c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:38:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3659bb62cebc4b6fa89044743eec6028 SHA-1: 76adb525903b3205a45d98624387ec24ba597ee5 SHA-256: 895400535141a0c6d38fa6068a99aa11d2b67c660960da846a4867d89aa57759
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, forming a link farm, with one specific URL identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a deeper analysis of the specific lure.

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=sherlock+holmes+soundtrack
    • http://files.thebuddhasmedicine.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775743/c0c7d73f6ac5.pdf
    • http://files.bayareasomaticpsychotherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969478/354538de2dc.pdf
    • http://files.weilongzhang.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681947/4e5a782.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1424/8857/files/wumedufemebaxetesiko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2779/8944/files/16605795282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lozafawofife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3053/6614/files/terminal_command_cheat_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4573/9941/files/22763038152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/49384589642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7827/7527/files/widitok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6159/9656/files/22439017683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6387/8566/files/15471365095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2541/3782/files/89058010890.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1522/4996/files/8117423806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6177/1430/files/fajadise.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_off00004ac9.bin
049b0123783059adcb36d4e4f957917112819492698a576d060e92799f008b14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AC9 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005cc7.bin
3e40f7ca4f0b0ebc0fbef5d57b4899fa375b3caf675dde1fc3e1b58eac9f1197
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CC7 12916 bytes