Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08d431648686fbe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:15:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f502ebd6d55ea8de5c0e4ca145118ea2 SHA-1: 4e5345863d7e4c58b4a9ea5cb1ebc2cd3b390a8d SHA-256: 08d431648686fbe068d2b9c94fb67a9dce15666561460d42317f41d7976c3a24
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link that leads to a link farm of other PDFs, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URL is presented as "Disability inclusion action plan guidelines" to deceive the user. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

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=disability+inclusion+action+plan+guidelines
    • http://koxalu.margoazzarelli.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968917/606775f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9569/4239/files/20_laboratory_apparatus_and_their_uses_with_pictures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9027/1651/files/vesatur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8118/8003/files/jetagubawiwisivojuxesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8909/3018/files/53671400048.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9186/1412/files/povivadarekeputavojufetum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4721/4486/files/61479344345.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4228/3432/files/75337953624.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9577/5650/files/xurivagel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2911/8627/files/nujivev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/75818139240.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_off000045b7.bin
816401a687a7ed09c80e6a1912ad149e69f557f3539250df70f71e7b3d9631ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45B7 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000580e.bin
432abd623c40f18c0859006d6827b0b542bb45b45b68e6f6e225e9253130ddfc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x580E 9564 bytes