Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a629df5f27ce529…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 21:54:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dd3a43a23e61a512a12e18c3051c6933 SHA-1: 619947b7b67eac54d9dbbe7b43ee4b819a06ed52 SHA-256: 0a629df5f27ce5297d082d3f8486d776ae8cb30ce70ce4fa2ba700c48a42ae9f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs pointing to external resources. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through a network of linked documents. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=an+inspector+calls+2015
    • http://files.lespiritcrafts.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303235/5a80325056.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0859/7927/files/vigolipexixax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7122/5502/files/12636915191.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6518/0314/files/81188967720.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5627/4339/files/68262645679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7866/7688/files/fairyland_3b_activity_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8201/5135/files/adoption_and_safe_families_act.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4168/5665/files/john_deere_tractor_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/94393320092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/47156414581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9083/6645/files/70586514767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3966/1981/files/46854787772.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9794/7300/files/arcane_gunpowder_gungeon.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_off000063fd.bin
63a296abb673ec09e2e45bed2a803ba17e9cf7fb997d3989b38b396eac0100ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63FD 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007644.bin
b5c4a18edda604f20e6c8e4949e4586274670f99b1135aea22d89ed2ecde7a82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7644 10076 bytes