Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c98f5145b4acf35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 09:12:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 419bf7b1289e2b16c350fef9ebcf6621 SHA-1: e8d5b06972e32b7310fea00e066853a616619779 SHA-256: 0c98f5145b4acf3573c3ad32f16334ef87858ee6d5f0a47b20b1cd1d005d70a1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=windows+server+2019+cal+licensing+guide', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'Windows server 2019 cal licensing guide'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, with the primary malicious link being the most critical IOC. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links are sufficient to infer a malicious redirection attempt.

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=windows+server+2019+cal+licensing+guide
    • http://files.keaolono.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682230/ea34bd430.pdf
    • http://files.penascodelsolhotel.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872105/3376821.pdf
    • http://files.casadedios.us/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740778/zejasigogu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1468/3813/files/27389244448.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1231/6584/files/zagaxukazesulapisul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6341/9814/files/giduzop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1334/9273/files/31998368490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9096/7714/files/numerologia_tantrica_kundalini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7978/5886/files/74221345588.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9961/9492/files/21709275159.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2342/3912/files/kuzujafi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4622/4551/files/stirling_lloyd_bridgemaster_data_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3577/0532/files/garasonoputefo.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_off0000672a.bin
95331e77a0b86d088af35ec1f28b9a6220a107bfcb18665f83011f35315d2956
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x672A 5752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007aeb.bin
09d37d4cfb5f932f44105336155de30f853e7518f26f93bba1b9811dd0ff2673
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AEB 13640 bytes