Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 024eb969211037a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 01:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d044dfa9e4baba0207004cb27ed3c277 SHA-1: f1c178b12235e800ba02794ae38b5b95bb8f3f3c SHA-256: 024eb969211037a54b49021cb0418a8164f83c2998597bb134d000a41b7d836f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics, indicating a deliberate attempt to redirect users to external sites. The ML classifier strongly suggests malicious intent.

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=2012+dodge+charger+pursuit+manual
    • http://files.cluessa.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814605/5411310.pdf
    • http://files.dublintaiko.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814303/zokezivenutuf-miwotavuxugax.pdf
    • http://files.aminzargar.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453871/7381261.pdf
    • http://sogamovu.pgsarts.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738993/lazuneto-bubajagafafewo-gotofo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3789/1477/files/f150_manual_transmission.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/63032467643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9212/3556/files/degolitexufisigi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6529/4504/files/86069997134.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5575/9011/files/libogopex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5228/4566/files/marketing_objectives_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7016/8986/files/nivuduvaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5892/9570/files/37232440921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4638/7367/files/66121417884.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_off000066ee.bin
9ed6a61465f5b4a79d3bedaddf898b16c980a4657ff7a94740460000d0999019
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66EE 5720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a30.bin
ae03eca83c0b3bfa0c4ee12d3f437f6e26af01482cf5f2da45ef33da9ad80156
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A30 9992 bytes