Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05a37a994d8a56dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 16:24:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5519fb46125a35a66dcf651d46876efd SHA-1: c7a4e7c06f2a261bf4b0ab75424438dcf0d91f66 SHA-256: 05a37a994d8a56dc065a9ee82f34b07631aa75942a0053ca71555a8d8f8de93f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for 'Calibre free windows 7'. The ML classifier and heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or malware delivery.

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=calibre++free+windows+7
    • http://files.youngconservationists.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680870/lukewowesenipuzobixe.pdf
    • http://vufiwivax.railyardapothecary.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/7353191.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7318/4678/files/besonumapazenanim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3076/4968/files/44392347671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8307/0629/files/39616225522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/monazata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9745/files/noes_bsicas_de_mecnica_automotiva_senai.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0644/3176/files/85865003929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7405/0458/files/64519339364.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1062/9532/files/geometry_g_reflections_worksheet_2_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6192/7318/files/gexirovurebimogegosuweli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6086/1845/files/lutozezafevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0000/3749/files/14492585814.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0995/0367/files/2346271061.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_off00007faf.bin
eef1b267b6c42e3413d095424bec443ca6590cfed3dd69c50c2b38f938b54647
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FAF 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000913c.bin
02fb33da57fa4f81c2fa9732331f33f7cdf4c6c292df46c6587bb23f307f332b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x913C 10992 bytes