Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09b45a9ff0e04048…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:10:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3bde4a3a0f640687dd27f44e18d46f21 SHA-1: d44ebb8d7491d81ce00aa5dea5292bf5bd702fc7 SHA-256: 09b45a9ff0e0404881a8113d6a9ad04c43353af0ebe9686a00bd74fa0ba626ab
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=primopdf%20free%20download%20for%20windows%2010', suggesting a lure to download potentially unwanted or malicious software. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further indicates a link farm strategy, common in SEO poisoning attacks.

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/wb?keyword=primopdf%20free%20download%20for%20windows%2010
    • http://files.suncoastsoul.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/baretanemomimu.pdf
    • http://ketusifi.darwinguevarra.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/pilenuwikebu_jorup_najitag_tenomux.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mefiwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4954/7938/files/cambridge_english_skills_real_listening_and_speaking.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7986/8309/files/simple_algebra_worksheets_year_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4229/0336/files/java_printf_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1645/2258/files/21614280997.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1314/0643/files/apache_tomcat_tutorial_linux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9745/6801/files/65999555723.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9209/8716/files/nordic_track_a_2550.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8272/5029/files/agriculture_upsc_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8507/9452/files/35065862468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9150/9919/files/blackrock_aladdin.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_off00005bc3.bin
c2fdb79f45bf399cd75574997fb4a89b0ca18afa369c8a2589b018a71fe60ca7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BC3 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e5b.bin
7cf436c929efa5ece28c2b4866d109d56b0b381cdb7b7e6589015b9c2006105c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E5B 9956 bytes