Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05e0b7b7f29629cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 03:56:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6f5e6db994a31fd99041bd9b9df1191d SHA-1: 739163518aed0f4ae8077ab21c748bebe4c7f2d0 SHA-256: 05e0b7b7f29629cff4d2b21ff82505a6995b08b167a9586d9d2be409a6cdf676
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Avery templates labels 8987', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of many external PDF links, including benign ones on Shopify, indicates a potential SEO link farm or a method to obscure the primary malicious destination.

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=avery+templates+labels+8987
    • http://files.allsaintswichita.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740504/rimosuwaw_wawurapub_xezesudof.pdf
    • http://muzisosa.matthew-wade.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739415/sivuwixino.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6710/4664/files/esl_154_practice_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5905/2706/files/65829387473.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5757/8138/files/dekenotadowojolujinoxire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8176/8864/files/english_grammar_rules_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wawufomujemozinabewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1327/5811/files/razusifulemujuneg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4849/2438/files/genesis_1_bible_study.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3957/9546/files/nepezewavexo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9570/4227/files/kavepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3506/5505/files/vobuwawun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9158/2357/files/elite_dangerous_change_hud_color.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_off00005d46.bin
755b309d943dc5fac83cb9a07c2f22959e1d92a4159bb761ffb623e13b66bf6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D46 5688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000708a.bin
b0fb42866da4f33def72f08afeed375af540d2dd80d11f72535994f4464af655
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708A 14280 bytes