Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab3e54f93652c6c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2020-11-03 09:11:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 09a539cd8dfc70eea99d5983782eb97c SHA-1: 5da284b8f7c9b580355a112665e135e44565a707 SHA-256: ab3e54f93652c6c2e87059684ae79b06e59185fa5da35e0ec2e2d4a10bbc7d83
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure, and is flagged by a machine learning classifier. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains text related to cancelling an escrow account, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of embedded links and the ML detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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/123?keyword=sample+letter+to+cancel+escrow+account
    • https://fisotewefupug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071176/mafitosodobabeme.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393506/normal_5f9256a849831.pdf
    • https://fijuwokokaku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134382009/kigopebumatu.pdf
    • https://fijojonibiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681787/jibigamefomoni.pdf
    • https://dagigokes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739756/xaxepeson.pdf
    • https://zigegawemofeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406932/5132354.pdf
    • https://tazejoga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383942/lazivof.pdf
    • https://revokaraso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320841/a39c9f2759f.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379487/normal_5f97c683a531a.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/214c9a0a-84aa-47df-90f1-6d6469a7502c/vexat.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1247224f-a4f2-47de-be22-32eda69db204/goraboxefajosezopud.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/49feca9a-a6e5-4fcd-9207-2cace2dfe249/vacuum_tube_data_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0743/3125/files/kesunudofupulexuni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0480/1042/8575/files/47635052924.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/94d9a14b-c253-4a10-a86f-b9a3da905509/28270169264.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://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off0000eedb.bin
cf272e94ec202fd2efd4eada42a680ec9f3d87b96135df0c6df5a9ca7955491e
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xEEDB 25128 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000b899.bin
2ea5f057d557333a4ba01c17f8682fa26ea785fea6853026f5df61d49e81a745
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB899 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9e7.bin
c4bd6676bafe4b936003e16c731141902db1e116aa03d29ef913d2365d70aa6c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9E7 10708 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00011b6f.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6F 4324 bytes