Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3bed5e661d96403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2020-11-13 05:06:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 10a6ebc4882704058ee204b8becd068a SHA-1: 1f599fbcf25c0eafa926b142cabb6eda71813365 SHA-256: d3bed5e661d9640385e3592dae5656e852b31ab7f0de1fd6baa5a59761ae75ac
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics as malicious, including a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure and a PDF link farm. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, suggests an attempt to masquerade as a search result for a book, likely to trick users into visiting the malicious URL. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://gettraff.ru/123?utm_term=a+people%2527s+history+of+the+united+states+by+howard+zinn+pdf
    • https://penulikadima.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482887/4497185.pdf
    • https://rifodomofakape.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134627700/26ae21941.pdf
    • https://pukotegifo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874060/jogabox_xabifexafove.pdf
    • https://gowutejuvotebap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134372770/janofozokukozinozofo.pdf
    • https://runebipunozup.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406604/dulofawufem.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ac358525-dcea-49ca-872c-eb7e6495782c/12658308628.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cbbac980-7243-49d0-b107-1b884ad727d4/63841506875.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/14f5e0b4-5381-4a00-a935-bbbd0baecc0f/rulopuxoson.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aee71955-f9d3-4482-9a55-1fbc55075cf0/97395135881.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/remeranexe/capas_que_componen_la_atmosfera.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fumiposamisur/el_camino_college_library_staff.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/946c0eba-c391-410e-ae75-9b348e8fc207/88119627379.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zategafozasiru/nogavabudevukanutuxa.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa7748f8-b251-405f-8ef0-022b60c06af6/49100144841.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/towakog/all_characters_in_count_of_monte_cristo.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a572f06a-d3dc-4d2f-a269-2743e78db7a6/chris_brown_ft_tyga_better_mp3_download.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7473acf8-184e-4547-ba7d-933f87d26640/38969689129.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce9c.bin
f0dcf09a6cafd1c66a9a780aebf1dbe78e689bb6e9a597c798312ae0816b05a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE9C 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e11b.bin
39d831a384d53029c2b8f31f496692acf2326b050e9df33137730dca8955e238
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11B 10480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010475.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10475 4324 bytes