Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d527034c16d6c628…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-11-04 14:07:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 047c69d31af5175d8317be8bf233bb5c SHA-1: e20ebf4ede69d99f0439a8d58fc06b17f37b0027 SHA-256: d527034c16d6c6288270b908b531fe6fec8c598cc9c395bdc6d31ee84f70cbfb
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded URLs that point to a known malicious redirector, identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'classic wow molten core loot sheet', likely intended to entice users to click the malicious link. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.com/123?keyword=classic+wow+molten+core+loot+sheet In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378381/normal_5f9d856581899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367007/normal_5f947c6c313b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bufuxilanu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134402831/e1334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382209/normal_5f8c47aa50df0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387929/normal_5f901eb0f33d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405902/normal_5f92d1f5d5b9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sakaburepagase/dufupevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7744/9366/files/mamoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ba2f1e46-43fe-45f4-a1f9-9e3f15e36fae/63217613940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0266/8717/6898/files/58867019496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/punagilelabon/sopegasererere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fatisake/fonuxibibanemifuroxupuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/23d1d0f8-7ec9-436a-bd74-adf9cb1bfaae/jukuzezavixobiwexikadode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7ad187ef-a901-4ead-82c3-ccc588e0e7e3/ponokilidaponusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nimuwet/42590451742.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_off0000605b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x605B 5036 bytes
SHA-256: a2c58b6c811d67e4c5bd0d6c5d2eb2ed919b6947f1c1428be36a1702bbbde97f
font_01_sfnt_off00007159.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7159 10396 bytes
SHA-256: fae84a059bbfa92dbd70783239bcfd2d14b39dbdfe80fb9d25b4ffc1f362d9a5