Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfe456cb1ac05b35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-07-14 01:39:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 59387b9a2a87ead53ac13b1e3f7a282b SHA-1: edbb4eb2ae65b26cba3f444d35df878aae93ff93 SHA-256: bfe456cb1ac05b35d65fe0d970f5ced450de3741ab3b4234e1637bdb99839aed
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also exhibits a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to game search engines or distribute malicious links broadly. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely the entry point for a subsequent stage of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=design%20builder%20user%20manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.johb.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438427/xudalimefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.schoolofmythsanddreams.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407565/widomutadejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.srmsmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738565/9893736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fhcamd.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637034/5932877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0233/9232/files/61425470909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5476/files/86116709737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7328/2983/files/39695303219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2417/0664/files/kixidisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pimudan.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/gusidalunemakafaloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nibajeni.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/75119003589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lurevaxi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/gexivominexumukodiwowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wajuzuk.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/43832748408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72518400380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kekesapenogetiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2045/1997/files/38225188555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5404/7137/files/76317526405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/89665223948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5726/7359/files/98391808709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5643/0230/files/timogibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5689/0013/files/pufuwokuxowabediti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007e80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E80 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 891a149efea15fe49515e55a1fc11e1a9eeb5bb3710129dfb0a68b2c97c52ed8
font_01_sfnt_off00008f37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F37 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 17f858ed3a447de34b72abb7e5a1599490a6b3cc9e563c9aa2efce9ae4c1139b