Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 092a4a4bfc2ddb20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-07-28 19:48:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b22e20466bfaed5b4b9c0162add9d147 SHA-1: e83b87bb959e21dc4323853d583a71c4a5d7094d SHA-256: 092a4a4bfc2ddb2037d385389d77d7fec2c1c6c10a868f4489b9bd1710f2c985
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 a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for flexible working requests, likely intended to trick users into clicking malicious links. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials.

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=flexible+working+request+appeal+letter+template
    • http://files.agefriendlybethel.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683005/7703249.pdf
    • http://files.stdastoriayouth.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696335/wiporoxiwizisoli.pdf
    • http://files.oldsskatingclub.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437983/5f2af85.pdf
    • http://files.drbriancasteels.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872178/3259337.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86399573169.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6545/9366/files/fajufulonesafebikoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3653/9045/files/dexatuxag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4827/9970/files/64085671889.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7600/9622/files/zuvokijag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1537/9866/files/daxenejojijofodakux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0580/3687/files/63605293498.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/posapijafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6248/5407/files/74963843598.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5036/0232/files/82810051745.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8523/3302/files/dolalekoz.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_off00006e50.bin
b5884b015a0797bb43ed30542a6146497c426d52afd6c5c3a9fd9bd0c15fb24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E50 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080e5.bin
5e1040014f751ae34f7fd7967cbb7e1c0efbe0c5a8cc949d2ebbfd89cac5898a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80E5 9856 bytes