Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05b9a559d371cbca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 01:56:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 843cdc3be2f02fe74c2c81927aec41ea SHA-1: d17739588751d3a3d164a968022d601d3f44c223 SHA-256: 05b9a559d371cbca2d105748d0984acf6f91b8e5ca5918cd4c01222a3a6be7f1
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 a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also flagged as malicious. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=japanese+internment+canada+worksheet
    • http://files.nickstvs.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969220/1658336.pdf
    • http://files.mlabnj.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813639/vofamo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2202/4867/files/haryana_bjp_candidate_list_2020_vidhan_sabha.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1410/2951/files/25172673269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1683/8558/files/zujuleta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7805/7122/files/susawetarogadat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1203/7540/files/nepiviraladogida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3015/0309/files/bupaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5993/6421/files/lonezufoguzer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0487/9271/files/texazuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8714/8709/files/motovefisaluripakud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2375/1575/files/andrzej_pozowski_alloplastyka_stawu_biodrowego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4184/8470/files/album_songs_in_tamil_hd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4786/1923/files/tools_of_social_work.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_off00008ea3.bin
250a3ce79a4b6e0c6665445a80564544ef353614240e0bb9bb4fe0691aa3861a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EA3 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a0f5.bin
a3f6cdbf8455de8cb3204b7280d167356d85af3d8495511c6d9daacdfaadae93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0F5 10076 bytes