Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06ab724472bb80e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 18:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c74132940be7b4782ee96a1bec714b0d SHA-1: c7c1b82ebc1442dadfb6a73bdf046e16d3b9b567 SHA-256: 06ab724472bb80e1392917a2665d33a4193f102abab85dfd9ec931b01357702c
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 known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious with high confidence. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the malicious redirector link strongly indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

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.ru/pify?keyword=performance+appraisal+errors+in+hrm
    • http://files.fernandoandradeart.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681728/nuwoxapeger.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1121/1425/files/nezolazadutedofodefagab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3831/8487/files/japexixilovifezupijedap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51108684678.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7260/1766/files/gaxefodajural.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/9078/2881/files/bpt_course_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/45927795399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1070/9913/files/best_beat_rap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6077/2510/files/39943736742.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pizegavegip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3137/9624/files/81710150010.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_off000059d0.bin
0400f4566d14b0949c2c2768f44debbcd9249021f6d3dcbc4df51bd9bcd1a433
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59D0 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b7a.bin
742374852ed43f65bdfe76af296a35ec63cf19d136099af8f6596d861b2e177b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B7A 9912 bytes