Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05077979a402ae59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 00:58:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 08255beb5296a9957ea713d76342ee97 SHA-1: 3239e2a35bb356aaf30f170b3f95795679f5bdba SHA-256: 05077979a402ae5939aa50a716907e9e19b0bcc2b8cfc6d23317bd2e0d4a6c44
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a malicious redirector. The document body and embedded links are designed to lure users into clicking on the malicious URL, disguised as a "Forza Horizon 4 tuning guide". The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector confirms the intent to lead users to harmful content.

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=forza+horizon+4+tuning+guide
    • http://files.thesolidrockshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813797/zaxisufibuxuxigusi.pdf
    • http://files.bonhamcajon.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406892/xikonemixinusubusuz.pdf
    • http://files.webuysouthernmdhomes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740483/milezul.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6737/4758/files/pafugifajakatofopeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0418/9096/files/xeboza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0051/8040/files/58461243676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sosivizugepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6464/6049/files/xogekab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7623/9014/files/ninofenugibomax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6187/9719/files/zigigojekominisabuveg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tokon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7185/5002/files/the_heritors_of_arcadia_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3736/6174/files/51614618606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9424/4516/files/taxajetutepamogelugizeje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7408/5279/files/77311915427.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_off00008a25.bin
a3117e47fed30cd10cd65fdb255432a5fc4d7081b82ded0dcc6362f6af440731
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A25 4968 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009b13.bin
e214659bf0b0377f7ebeb54221aa574b3f5638bce179b3e0ff7640fa8c267917
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B13 10064 bytes