Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 037b6a595611028c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 05:53:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b5011aa978a113d0707f664a60dfba59 SHA-1: f25428230fd41c4f357193000a0a1f645febe062 SHA-256: 037b6a595611028ce201177a875aaded6550f5ee624fd4235d772f7c658b94b1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, functioning as a link farm. One of these URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=esv+bible+pdf+version', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a more detailed analysis of the specific lure.

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/pify?keyword=esv+bible+pdf+version
    • http://files.stlcreativecave.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739713/1edfd54a8ca.pdf
    • http://fusax.badlyscattered.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/tudaxasewu.pdf
    • http://files.n2d.shop/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969061/7371374.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7211/9193/files/fekawizivetelaro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1753/3597/files/depozaxiwubosogalusodaxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5265/2951/files/21610331172.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8814/2743/files/82085530446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1351/9006/files/dragon_s_dogma_best_augments.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6162/2437/files/asrs_rating_scale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9436/7649/files/fruity_loops_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/93443099476.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4503/files/losuzubovewatinedesap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5059/8562/files/9293722797.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2355/7030/files/34425842343.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7620/6238/files/puraxejamofusosepefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7755/8681/files/36092486312.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_off000071e8.bin
03d56a3102f3b0807c1104f341660d4dc84b1dcb5b2e62f173b79a047f98602f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71E8 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082e7.bin
f5660c2daa160e463229476bfa148bc92064ca5d3a754b56e6279660f8e7aeae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82E7 10604 bytes