Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dbb6f89d79bfd94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 07:22:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 01101b87d375200b23181fcd431b3be6 SHA-1: 6622d590f04f5c7455dc75b0cd62449183a0d161 SHA-256: 0dbb6f89d79bfd940ee55359164b8831b275371b48c62986adaa1676b3662af6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for deceptive purposes. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs points towards a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

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=reduce+pdf+file+size+apple+mac
    • http://files.fathersweek.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739758/2486198.pdf
    • http://files.freedomyoga.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813509/1826556.pdf
    • http://files.thenestnevadacity.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637016/ff60a71f84.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0880/2466/files/45299404664.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6716/3302/files/fiwibav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/matam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6101/0842/files/34834156618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3391/1705/files/namp_4790._2c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7078/2614/files/zawufipetun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5746/3971/files/54073370203.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1425/0905/files/20869215012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5652/9565/files/jab_comix_torrents.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/63016720996.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2181/1364/files/86627427942.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4244/8295/files/93534093247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3942/4669/files/95656680719.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_off00005b91.bin
4ea45a9896e8c72bb091d97962da681e812f42af34fb07e34737e4deeb81be6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B91 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d7d.bin
e21aebeb9110bfc9baaafff8db59c6d1a8d05539b706acc01491d612c0c486e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D7D 10436 bytes