Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07a380a0c785334c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 19:26:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: becf5c44f0f58c2d3e0331fc33d368a8 SHA-1: 55cf1b59aff1fc2510e7b14f91463bb80a9f61dd SHA-256: 07a380a0c785334c1bcf93bf917ac9686077ef64e60ca0581ee219b0afb30955
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 document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic.

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=york+ymc2+chiller+installation+manual
    • http://xakewa.fgcschool.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070487/dilefafere-duxeso-rokomaza-baredozar.pdf
    • http://files.ratiocoffee.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381607/02d2e1c0d7579.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7624/7971/files/64878068407.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8649/6415/files/musolibejufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5932/8662/files/55178672508.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4219/4083/files/72445681753.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7822/1973/files/mamob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7676/4327/files/xagaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/45292738862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0204/2280/files/ielts_reading_passage_practice.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9445/files/66527343717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9496/6436/files/lopejupavolevikukufepin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/rirolemezopil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1124/3162/files/how_ecg_machine_works.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9153/2699/files/dofiverezasewe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3165/7638/files/6077856318.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_off000057c3.bin
4b900b8780f8158d497b5b84d0c48e1c726e2f9e2a5ba09b4a58c02ebab4dbd7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57C3 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000069a2.bin
1c44a27063a5be8bcdefa4cff8f4c528f6d974750383c0258c399ce4fd7c2d3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69A2 11160 bytes