Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e53dcfd477e3a065…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebb06f9b41fa2a06458c39c3e0acf6a5 SHA-1: 6a29f8de9ce0541e8578b7ee63cd3c7163cf5117 SHA-256: e53dcfd477e3a065ee8b312d9e44fc99290335e1a6f7b502a44eab15e8130565
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by a critical heuristic due to its extensive link farm, which points to a redirector URL. The document body contains text related to a 'South African constitution of 1961 pdf' and includes the primary redirector URL, suggesting a lure for users searching for this document. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content.

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=south+african+constitution+of+1961+pdf
    • http://files.shophandmadefarmstead.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738704/sebolita_bigev.pdf
    • http://files.tropicalcuracao.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814097/e2d70f35962e09b.pdf
    • http://files.catherinereilly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483138/3803139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9907/8304/files/44579789547.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8126/9401/files/lipaligedokaluxum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8260/3927/files/90530309580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2779/8943/files/i_kendrick_lamar_mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2350/6336/files/liberalismo_economico_e_politico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6211/7020/files/gerebudelatifemujep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/2246319161.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/blank_space_free_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/9142282406.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006543.bin
2ebaa76a3f896d3f6c35219b64cfaff6ff5b1759fac356864f6ea7321209953b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6543 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000788d.bin
f72612598a57cec2d3f52cf929f2a392dd00dc423f85afcdcaa7e34d7c5c28cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x788D 9944 bytes