Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05cbb4b9ea037582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.4 KB Created: 2020-08-27 15:36:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1217616afe0b651f547e39fd8626c99d SHA-1: b664db59e705fe502e2d2d2c8fc31b3cbeb5e2d0 SHA-256: 05cbb4b9ea037582b1f5254cec66d1259294a255faa57db6e93b5e59cc6b8563
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly suggests maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external PDF links points to a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic.

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.com/pify?keyword=interpersonal+communication+3rd+edition+pdf
    • http://wivuraxup.premiertruckparts.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407408/lapexabuwudenabogaf.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0519/0041/files/candlestick_patterns_forex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1459/2408/files/245882356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6004/4710/files/43382574527.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5528/3350/files/dulewefibegetazejatitab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7632/files/65154407798.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2829/7381/files/69910107536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3765/5191/files/bollinger_band_trading_rules.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4224/2709/files/desubilipivixinepidupunop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4168/5665/files/biwolu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9825/7048/files/weporupajali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0436/1895/files/39062906658.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_off000043ea.bin
78f32473f2f5f05e9e30593a4cbf9b2fc7c3068fa6d4e7758737a2825e59bb39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43EA 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005624.bin
28dea3a6b45c028f8bbe50da1a985def40821d18f017629477b1f9bbdec0ee5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5624 10128 bytes