Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b92fe746e274a0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 05:05:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a090d3bd235b788f00154edb0e9cb664 SHA-1: ea8bb7934506541a611f9e3595b010eed97f3edf SHA-256: 0b92fe746e274a0ecd8d704c99654c2439c56bc454f34b3e35f416e78fbeacfc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external PDF links, suggesting a tactic to distribute or obscure malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, potentially leading to further compromise.

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=adobe+reader+9.+3
    • http://files.1afan.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437878/nerobugob.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2721/6037/files/autocad_file_to_converter_online_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2523/6121/files/19795760587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7154/4225/files/ielts_reading_samples_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9040/1687/files/37654465187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/davol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9419/6902/files/80844993401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7026/6273/files/81801673103.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5981/7117/files/xevotefupomuxikurefilufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2739/0887/files/82640595825.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7456/5784/files/adjectif_et_pronom_possessif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3586/4736/files/aurlien_barrau_livre.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_off00005f35.bin
ddf00f5074346cc8edb586e30de8637fee66d801429e47ac9a88d1979c46e6a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F35 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000708e.bin
393c9708d8f5f4dd08969b7278118be1f2a26adcdfd4e8e669e7f93f9465c0bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x708E 9840 bytes