Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04f57a0fda1bc18b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 09:54:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 98c7a024ccd07fd0a6df3fef997e2384 SHA-1: 8024e4423984822ba63322e1f057926a2ac58ee0 SHA-256: 04f57a0fda1bc18b3566ae404cfacfa4430bec57586aef209085a26c010b2b81
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=genki+1+workbook+answer+key+pdf`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure, presenting itself as a workbook answer key to encourage clicks on these links. 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.com/pify?keyword=genki+1+workbook+answer+key+pdf
    • http://gelaremak.christ-presbyterianchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407995/bukonamumi.pdf
    • http://siwane.bayoush.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681504/xerilet.pdf
    • http://zedefu.cherokeecountyparks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/wugidesafaxu.pdf
    • http://wowose.ear-lab.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681647/d4fdec4e471b.pdf
    • http://files.rumadesignstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163957/faxoxetakofiseb.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0493/5835/files/electrical_actuation_system_in_mechatronics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5526/8519/files/viper_7345v_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6663/0037/files/66280744904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5794/6522/files/74635938261.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4560/0931/files/70532252268.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4765/6343/files/analytical_geometry_book_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4211/9592/files/merriam_webster_english_dictionary_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5703/1842/files/graphic_design_portfolio_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5864/0534/files/vewobaxowigalatirevajevus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9639/2348/files/pabukokoxib.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_off00005545.bin
6ed924c8eaaeb7b06074bf02c3abc7bdd2a4defd7de9b788a3f1e3a008b22bc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5545 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000681c.bin
2bdd5fb5f3c71b0be631fad8d223e95cacdc38d325e02d03f7d8f49c725400bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x681C 10612 bytes