Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b0f441de6868020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-08-27 17:28:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 05a4c70a979be4ddf7dc37e9f221980e SHA-1: f749fd983265243c48da2b234803c1ae8dadb36f SHA-256: 0b0f441de6868020088d28c634c7f4e5fda8e1624b104fd6d8b66afc25397454
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The primary malicious link identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=alesis+midiverb+ii+effects+list, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document's structure and content suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malware through a network of linked PDFs.

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.cc/pify?keyword=alesis+midiverb+ii+effects+list
    • http://files.motivatedmovingsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070845/3af0860062925.pdf
    • http://files.nadjamoore.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682936/6384495.pdf
    • http://files.creasman-counseling.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070866/e084cfa.pdf
    • http://files.wiltshire-medieval-graffiti-survey.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969312/4241049.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5192/6183/files/74341928451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/6518/9019/files/kisavalilusidibixexab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6582/6719/files/gaxugedidopizetezosivonol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1925/5454/files/7710297333.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1574/0312/files/73255245716.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2920/8988/files/zikizajewuzavodolux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/suton.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6670/4550/files/microsoft_publisher_tiral.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5190/9274/files/14289590237.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_off000073ea.bin
c0522fd4a4c56ffa3297ab178f53173613b6dc89c2f91104901812591ba95f0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73EA 5144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008554.bin
d0d36f7fcdabb71b629be0056a5645610627b1862324d693a6c7659143b3b8f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8554 11092 bytes