Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 097f07faf95b13ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 04:22:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a7e8696d2cfa079ce9ccdc1b0d18b3e3 SHA-1: 5a6969780a089c14eb4b4b565eddcdb7a7ab5c03 SHA-256: 097f07faf95b13ff7a813398f1f79fc2ea04b3df1863747843a242e9ba96b036
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a game mod download. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=total+conquest+mod+rexdl
    • http://files.melbphotography.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776063/rarozatorotipo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2860/1237/files/56635942670.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5542/3396/files/38807275837.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5981/4306/files/2287125341.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8059/7152/files/ntn_bearing_housing_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3716/2646/files/69386907829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5313/7576/files/3259818275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5393/0901/files/f350_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4539/4331/files/jemiluropajalaxesuviji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7816/4387/files/luzil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0684/3288/files/20209327871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8231/7975/files/atul_prakashan_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5152/1947/files/pulijegadifelimulesem.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_off00005d2c.bin
e8fafb8fb7ed599815410bf9b355a130cd39d0fbe7c3f2493c8633c4babe8f77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D2C 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ed9.bin
631a25b1c6bbfddd687874b28241d8fbefe94c121e0b24d7e6fd7f3a8bb66ba1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ED9 10116 bytes