Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f123bf7bd93d8f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 05:24:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 869192351cdadb173813e126f0a315a5 SHA-1: 06af967a047b8a7b90b6a11890b60dd8e6800c20 SHA-256: 0f123bf7bd93d8f31d3fa6cb490b9ae3ee58aa3983c56e76f805ac1e5a1f7367
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure related to workout PDFs, but the primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=bowflex+dumbbell+workout+pdf
    • http://files.zanyunoodles.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739381/sikete-wemotuta.pdf
    • http://files.fittingroomligonier.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379268/wujusuruzasojuwepadu.pdf
    • http://files.oranmormead.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070230/zonif.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2207/2480/files/romasidorabesuvizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0569/7438/files/xojatefanezezisujakoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5802/7928/files/vakaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9471/9131/files/wadepodonujamop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2457/9751/files/lady_gaga_discography.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0401/files/new_vegas_unofficial_patch_plus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vazakiliduvapi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/laxefasigapabaxirasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6642/4486/files/3194430220.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_off00006022.bin
4524e512c835b5dc89d5cd0312d6b2e71b813ff4393e2d9e5276fc69ebd3ac6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6022 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071de.bin
e630771547e42919c54ae8413193e222595db6d5415323fe165e6665c078f131
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71DE 10168 bytes