Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08587a2939f89443…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 23:25:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c5b8970a44ce0d7d2d3a3af0468b6848 SHA-1: 78a86b81eeb4cb884d87eb3158eef4c151cb2bb2 SHA-256: 08587a2939f8944345386766c7c079f366d59a0c2774367b8e91eff5e09e1d87
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm, often used to obscure malicious destinations. No scripts were extracted, but the primary threat appears to be the redirection to malicious infrastructure.

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=omnipotence+of+god+pdf
    • http://xupid.beonegallery.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381135/votex.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5509/5712/files/1733649080.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2243/3953/files/milawupopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/67769212673.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6517/0334/files/exclamation_sentences_worksheets_for_first_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6424/5922/files/35415295512.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8724/0093/files/bhavanisagar_training_books_in_tamil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4057/5381/files/caries_dental_tratamiento.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8570/1019/files/vewipokaruf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/7585/7571/files/android_studio_emulator_no_internet_access.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_off00008d73.bin
41cfed18478dd5daa0d9ff9b208bfef393e5f47a167884449e7c6a534adf2e5a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D73 4988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009e5d.bin
dcc88913e081f7a6c841958e6c7dea0e585de8b68568612763149b5ebe7d1c75
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E5D 14960 bytes