Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05e02163cc1813d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 18:17:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 479baeba1330c5d5b36c81a7b5a46a5b SHA-1: 233d0f55904833a25197729909d98f6796a5011a SHA-256: 05e02163cc1813d768e3842994ee573aca96f39717d57b23554c6e20f59b2713
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a quiz and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to direct users to potentially harmful content or to download further malware.

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=possessive+adjectives+spanish+quiz+pdf
    • http://files.anitaayersministries.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775518/5260826.pdf
    • http://files.sevensisterscameraclub.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406082/10572.pdf
    • http://files.finefoliage.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874240/wabifuperozukaw-gapovazejepexu-riwogusunofil-ruroposisimozej.pdf
    • http://files.rachelgrubbmusic.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302940/5652406.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7238/8246/files/mujitepemivemone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2778/4095/files/84621110270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3513/1046/files/3499651635.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2429/3796/files/kidokotojaberovunuvafe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2880/6807/files/15903981991.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2784/6552/files/33042516509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6192/7318/files/22215668824.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1175/1588/files/92106027151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0804/8808/files/8064955112.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_off00006dae.bin
6d207d352128b144366b1ab97bbc3177cf3f1886c44f10d32fcda853eac1e0dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DAE 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008042.bin
78011f3b91a9f00d12d38b2d6a2ac524d657df9fdca5a4d534507a4a59ca4566
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8042 14612 bytes