Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05632844d2a3f433…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-13 10:41:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d010c83b7db9b1381dfbbcdd6dd868ef SHA-1: 035aa57be708e7f19fab1c2af5bd854fb791f8bd SHA-256: 05632844d2a3f433a561f61bb90a443018e6e307645cd5fb71d39b9d3010978e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains a URL that likely leads to a malicious payload or further redirection.

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.cc/wb?keyword=gary%20leal%20advanced%20transport%20phenomena%20pdf
    • http://files.i4ingenuity.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739015/pajirafuzufa.pdf
    • http://files.bicycleteacher.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381607/lododeg-nutoxuwezipe-lixesadugofa.pdf
    • http://files.kaysvillefruitheightsmuseum.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874253/gixodogazijolilo.pdf
    • http://kopepi.joinadventures.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/672ef1e282.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2681/6932/files/lavoribomuzatezuse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6725/1617/files/gatesixitulunowurixi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1400/8486/files/bosozozepiwodikebam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8903/4402/files/71295824514.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/81397334527.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2341/6995/files/lafazom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5802/1027/files/katebezevonafevagagi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5542/3398/files/master_exploder_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2872/5405/files/74653089460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9569/5266/files/1658979714.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_off000051dd.bin
b387d3864483041b6c9dc527e93ad77bd87d742dd58c57a4036be63e6997a55d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51DD 5588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064ca.bin
8194bc7df035aee3d36cf31c0cc113dc065373ed57a9cff1f2bb93d405d420bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64CA 9888 bytes