Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b0ef46548fed4b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.6 KB Created: 2020-08-16 23:27:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 54b59d068f8c4a6b8441c983de320329 SHA-1: 8fee22026612a2e015391b13ffb113e6cfcbd724 SHA-256: 0b0ef46548fed4b99f4d7d984cd3abc00af0139d52495a7c3cb41ba85ca7a92d
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links designed to create a link farm, with one critical link pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of callback phishing lures suggests a social engineering attempt.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=modul+akuntansi+keuangan+menengah+pdf
    • http://vufikawig.jvrealtyandhomeloans.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871980/121107.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3998/0710/files/45070963798.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5928/0022/files/amoebiasis_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1721/5905/files/81220842605.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0496/0676/files/zijufalakezix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/35543542817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5310/4790/files/zimulatobutetuwixuloxuti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8613/5961/files/nufatejom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2476/1510/files/zobipomukofor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6758/4162/files/35260151200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5451/1766/files/the_cancer_journals_audre_lorde_free.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_off0000ba00.bin
b44af9a46ba23eaaf196d57640b4ee96168c85818395e76d5dbb33af17ba9212
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA00 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc62.bin
369d5ac8dd9b470a323eb91d6109424d8c5cc94ce73538f6613c7997a3d1a0d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC62 10944 bytes