Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06204e9d4ddb080b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 13:24:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 593738c375413b95f4580a8f1e646555 SHA-1: 3f561c0405eb3a20ee767a11f8cad4bb1cd54623 SHA-256: 06204e9d4ddb080bd9a367b3a7bf4d23afdf0bcbff433818afe1fc6088c9f44c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of external links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the critical heuristic firing indicate a malicious intent to redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL.

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/wb?keyword=fender%20ft%201%20tuner%20manual
    • http://files.development12508.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607522/vipine.pdf
    • http://files.balloontwistersdcvamd.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969375/gipagazovupibiz_tolokaduwimola.pdf
    • http://files.eastbrooklynhousing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681194/nusamek.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9229/5333/files/que_es_biblioteca_virtual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6917/3923/files/63315940010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0850/3456/files/ala_moana_mall_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3105/0915/files/nyc_200v.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5320/3104/files/74499697529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9821/0461/files/gafonuvuwigekefikojab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9079/5934/files/innovator_s_dilemma_summary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2630/0575/files/loveseletatinevek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3070/7356/files/46750722407.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1760/7067/files/gusirakiju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/botudurodakokebavexosox.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_off00004606.bin
4f97e214d2e0096b777a65f5b983d8b1b6bb25e9c9dafbb7071f8c765a357b2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4606 4880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000568a.bin
8806be22309a18ebb15895520abed51f7d078d3aafbf329dfd800c96db259638
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x568A 10184 bytes