Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05791cdc9a10b8d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-11-07 06:02:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 59f0b5cba84b7ea7d9133ab12d6b9f09 SHA-1: 2ad84e84a370ba9394995c118879f1345e85e585 SHA-256: 05791cdc9a10b8d84a914b90fe50263479860be684d19800f46a257df57043ae
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable hosting and one specifically to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though garbled, contains text related to a book title and URLs, suggesting a link farm designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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://traffmen.ru/123?keyword=business+in+action+7th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371267/normal_5f988162369cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424027/normal_5f9c3035d737a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://tafexoru.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/3294531957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/05292078-daac-4f9a-85bf-c746c9414cbc/borderlands_2_mechromancer_dlc_free_download_xbox_360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zusepofofone.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/tudobuvenufulikizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mipofasena.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/apset_model_papers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuwibanaxar.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/98036189897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/banula/my_hero_academia_episode_52_dailymotion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suvarofora.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/95519257918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavokido.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/pl_sql_tutorial_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db4378d8-6e7c-490d-b1a4-6e6312ae41a0/89571288511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C2B 5244 bytes
SHA-256: e7b3b9e4e6b87bd4e4b28a8d5613536998a3c342c7d678fcda2912f9f79be12a
font_01_sfnt_off00006e13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E13 11036 bytes
SHA-256: e6f0f43f92ca906ba93ff3498460ddaecf1b95658434e9ed366a3e9d2ae0f83d