Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ba82afcc0ca0435…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 04:41:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8f496b9f102f5db33584953af833530b SHA-1: d8e2594f608f170fb826b7c70cd06ceb981dba6c SHA-256: 0ba82afcc0ca043502c92dc11b2e6bfd77a934adb8f08b83428d3ee9fb7578c6
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download button' lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing or scam 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=allegion+engage+pdf
    • http://files.tarjetaverde.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682868/luwugotupaguw_gawedevadus_xijamapupib_lajateja.pdf
    • http://files.shawnaughtydesignz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407511/sovajoza.pdf
    • http://sizad.total-insurancesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/7479548.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5192/5155/files/23701853971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6645/8265/files/763527406.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0196/9820/files/52411589888.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3525/5203/files/learn_esp32_with_arduino_ide_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7940/1634/files/rujujokuvugebumopajovego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6447/5304/files/92069246358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/7284/2915/files/gobumizijodexobajeram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7238/0318/files/birkat_hamazon_francais.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5936/3478/files/list_of_inuyasha_episodes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4722/3458/files/vapumu.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_off000097b1.bin
00973bb301ae44afd5778c67cce065219a0887330a97b2eb8a41272ba0d6819e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97B1 4924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a88a.bin
ecdcc1d4590f08d0ba8b3b39dbd00a05650423ab1b0b611df3340e20baf49a31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA88A 10660 bytes