Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e923b99d7be6f962…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-11-03 05:01:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04b1977e5baa76a2178fb5cb336d003c SHA-1: 1e51ebec0a9188c3b22736ac8c85b52a6a4b21f9 SHA-256: e923b99d7be6f962218d91acbb489c06908f9f4e55fd13a442a12a5137b916f7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body text, though partially obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure. The presence of a large number of external links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt, aiming to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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.link/123?keyword=mugen+1.1+stages+1280x720+ace+million
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385869/normal_5f9c647a8e388.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387716/normal_5fa026ca5f610.pdf
    • https://sukevimekixav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599702/7365823.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388814/normal_5f919ff2b517a.pdf
    • https://lifotuvuzaraxur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775275/xidado.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d05ecac7-6e4b-4a8a-bf08-d379c7c1a44c/lease_extension_addendum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/7572/3947/files/53409423325.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/3541/7502/files/best_manual_suv.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dapekufoxiraku/east_clinton_high_school_sabina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/2425/9485/files/the_gospels_power_and_message.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0498/1089/9099/files/common_sense_apush_quizlet.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004904.bin
34a9fe6a193cbf650fa03b42ad8e9ddb651b9bf4ba0b2acc9b34f59c969d475c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4904 5728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ca1.bin
f0089478b8602b635d13146cce7a8437469fb24a2df835d09029283080d344ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CA1 10472 bytes