Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08eb8963835dda3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 15:56:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: af0d926299aed47f55b90971c02b7518 SHA-1: e4e9989a7f43fe8fdfbe3888b723e166e6011e65 SHA-256: 08eb8963835dda3cba9f46a7f9f203770e721ddf2eaacb8e3ce54f5c53ee85e8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirector infrastructure. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a link farm, and PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and URLs, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity.

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=baba+banda+singh+bahadur+movie+song
    • http://files.troonupdate.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452824/b5bc1d6226c8be6.pdf
    • http://files.certifieddesign.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398242/detenizikazazu.pdf
    • http://xotamif.sarahtorti.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775557/1406d832d5a.pdf
    • http://files.richmondavenueanimalhospital.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776861/2158236.pdf
    • http://files.paragliding-in-interlaken.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739651/rexomumubuvo_tofopize.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8034/3961/files/58767155638.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/16187443352.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8672/5799/files/geometric_and_technical_drawing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0326/4667/files/kdk_ceiling_fan_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1075/2663/files/87329766738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8668/3037/files/suzuki_quadrunner_500_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24221046066.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7560/0535/files/werexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4818/8569/files/73057178448.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_off00004c59.bin
f5cd1f9a90cb293d86c830cdf7aee2472a09ebd57252ae98f4f007eb6d06a444
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C59 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005eba.bin
281783a75c42b6158baf9c62a6e05eb6c301082740860a93b580919126f98c05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EBA 13436 bytes