Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04a5d5ccaa2f2e04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:33:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 89cf37d1a2189bb9796e319860c09e83 SHA-1: 013ffadd1f27940739150fad4412ea96e0f59faa SHA-256: 04a5d5ccaa2f2e04cdc966c37399868c638a4cca193f262779820769a4394330
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to "Baseball tonight tv guide" and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into visiting potentially harmful sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=baseball+tonight+tv+guide
    • http://viweno.mrksrecyclehawaii.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695535/7122564.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2023/0564/files/revipobamaseb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/6248/0296/files/plasma_proteins_biochemistry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0331/3315/files/estrategias_de_aprendizaje_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9740/7126/files/6557431791.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6876/5861/files/sukalawusizudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9096/8729/files/10768574805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7442/7806/files/54421921345.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004981.bin
858c1d18e94aeee81608463520eb5a553a55df6dd2fab8f7e2787be4077bf894
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4981 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ae2.bin
09d6993d769a9ab41fb116bad00979d9a30ee3c4263b33644261c506893f5a16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AE2 9904 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007caa.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CAA 4324 bytes