Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0304f5b7ebd2c4cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-10 21:16:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c8b8594812808db19dc10eb01d32f00 SHA-1: feb249ae9c0e543a85c70e21e102b2d2688c365e SHA-256: 0304f5b7ebd2c4cf082b307b46a9a2028a79fc3f445762c690fe4d7e8e6009dd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs that likely serve as lures. The presence of a malicious redirector and a large number of embedded links suggests an attempt to lead the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.ru/pify?keyword=cultural+appropriation+definition+pdf
    • http://files.kvrpc.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968968/6117904.pdf
    • http://files.carpediem191.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874647/849497.pdf
    • http://files.petermichaeldavison.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813982/bokavifurenis.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7623/0046/files/wawezomezapuvogafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1234/8315/files/gojomugibefujevujazep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/relurifoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3143/6186/files/56423175479.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5568/1431/files/sheet_gauge_thickness_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3886/6593/files/leadership_styles_in_education.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5575/2103/files/tagozofi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0921/9492/files/33502414403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7746/7288/files/82924044580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5036/0232/files/wukanineji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3573/7755/files/77273080590.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_off00007082.bin
eeb358c345aa5bcdec2b4842d3b09a561b6ea1a5f2e6d3d204893637dec39a87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7082 4760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080ba.bin
66771c78f52644e754c3fd9d38ae747a96a6de4a67f99abce7980ca22c75273c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80BA 9948 bytes