Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01b4a0c4a90e6aad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 14:24:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3f65c65428e3e5ae3efbe993be86a215 SHA-1: fad51b571578c07e88862232410e9ad9138ac1a8 SHA-256: 01b4a0c4a90e6aad6476a7b81d23aef4bbe0c9572ac1ec15947f7673ef2f078e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the malicious URL. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also indicates a link farm, likely for SEO poisoning or traffic 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.com/wix?keyword=famous+peoples+pets
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6119/0559/files/zijukaliworuzirezajuzux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4466/7553/files/70222245596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6584/3620/files/cavity_preparation_for_amalgam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8161/3987/files/problem_solving_therapy_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1723/8685/files/80283218250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3633/4488/files/browser_app_ios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7741/0724/files/72065702046.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db1da1_4245076da7164a2d800e74997b694fac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1b8612_46ffdf92f41347208c8fe9673b4c6e29.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3ba1575a95e042ae8e625d3dd533067c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_c882dbd6446d4ceea4ff60771c122cfa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_25a6bb1d7c204d19aa612d7f8767dc19.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/902d29_a7945840fb3b4f9baa7e08cd0197a43d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e1c37d_07e5505a5cb941838c3f86ed8f2cee0a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c8d66_4b0d11353e2c4bc29882264ad9526293.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ac9d0e5cf1f46d081f2ad6ed61f82e4.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_off00007635.bin
53164e17f42bb3ce4c592241ce1af8bc52fd29a7ab646710611deb582149bed2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7635 4824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008692.bin
36cae2bf04c6e352bfb8cec217ce5b5f669aead44df2d737f06d69ed13989176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8692 10484 bytes