Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e05c5468ee4e4ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 21:28:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec6c1d9ec827dddcea8abf7362faa956 SHA-1: a18e29592f4443d8626bbf3db58fae8e4fbb3b2b SHA-256: 0e05c5468ee4e4ea79a423eb08aa50ddf20dd8f53333c884d7f5841d52205f17
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=ashrae+psychrometric+chart+free', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain references to the lure topic and the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to disguise the malicious redirector.

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/wix?keyword=ashrae+psychrometric+chart+free
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/1438/1722/files/37482748953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8621/6344/files/iphone_x_emulator_for_android_studio.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8590/3525/files/hp_48gx_manual.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_25543622b9ae4d07bb1ea74336628cf4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80c1db_57bcf19cdbcc4109954d14488e870e74.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/df4650_da8684c588854bf6a196ac5b5b4137ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0fdb6d_ed0747f1bb4e4067b50e9b14a21ac954.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b80a51276c4640d8b781c73719c34f29.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c0ecc49b30e04e5087fdbe7958b41fda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/df4650_ceac3d37e43d48a7a53e35f259c5ced2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a307bbaee50b4c20bc0aacb279b4e8b8.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_off00007b9a.bin
0a1941ddeaeadcc8ffed9aa3c49f281e60395c365972841af18862cb1ed8907b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B9A 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d8b.bin
c4702945e282d70339db0e0e8557a44755d7d095bb595d8d1d9958f42525db2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D8B 12800 bytes