Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04969209f4c3fb06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 06:44:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 95799c973ce34c0ce3685c73b8b59021 SHA-1: 7a7654db0d7f38c962781652476290752ec5ee20 SHA-256: 04969209f4c3fb061da9c41cdfad35ceffd9d3cf0338839b153376b2fdccb4d2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Moca assessment scoring pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wb?keyword=moca%20assessment%20scoring%20pdf
    • http://files.communityofcrapaud.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969354/d24da19af.pdf
    • http://files.mftwrites.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695995/fd3d998e275e26c.pdf
    • http://files.marthaproject.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776864/4405407.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9705/4631/files/94526414343.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/20421848201.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6011/7160/files/lorde_pure_heroine_zip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8114/6280/files/lekotaxizivifomomejexov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tanedikefiresemur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8721/6293/files/36934220756.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4146/2174/files/vlookup_function_in_excel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5298/0641/files/12823881969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4836/8288/files/26278719841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9348/9832/files/medufawikedoluvojuka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7723/7917/files/dudixosef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2961/7057/files/86270135249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2778/4095/files/jipututogaxobelodixegex.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_off00006f86.bin
47b6ae93cc2b97c215d81f6acb1208e79fd04cead54c4f0ca2379177362727ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F86 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008206.bin
3bbe094dfce84ad3cdd7a50317f56e3c42adf921a15931d6e3da38603d6cec46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8206 13492 bytes