Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05ec69da5ea591f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 21:12:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 17ce892bfd553758cf607dbb38b4ad4c SHA-1: 98ec60ccd77f21d3836522e4545ad60d9c76995c SHA-256: 05ec69da5ea591f66aaafa3c4bb24f2881e21d15298cf39e9578e11e9a2e0cb8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of the lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links also suggests a link farm intended to distribute or redirect users to malicious content.

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.link/wix?keyword=samsung+bd+c5900
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3029/0327/files/32654437662.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1251/4201/files/vixebedikugujabonugis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5091/6247/files/wasawojumejaja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3619/6507/files/65418777983.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2e3a30113151436e925358d05a45388e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/metaputerujusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0736/7592/files/esic_stenographer_syllabus_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4765/6343/files/jeroruk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4514/9079/files/buriti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/2202/5623/files/irregular_plural_nouns_worksheet_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8206/3777/files/kelidajofij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8893/7120/files/sedakatu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8508/4310/files/gisoremifovonipugewuboguk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9928/2845/files/chrome_shelled_regios_episode_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9780/8285/files/xazupatejawuvo.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_off0000a42e.bin
0224237922f67ab5b738e1a3571e140738d18b95526921ef857bfb5742a337c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA42E 5796 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b7c8.bin
fe8d0014e29005d24abd5eb2ee8c50420837ee7dcf017082823a7135209aaa66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7C8 14260 bytes