Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1059533a71840ed9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:23:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 00cf01a52e9758c98fd7247cefe58020 SHA-1: 6e6e8437732f09113f7c6f6ed92c2166ea6699ce SHA-256: 1059533a71840ed9dcc132bde915b33cbe25d36031ee4c3a215a0105118c3bb0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references industry guidelines, likely as a lure.

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.com/pify?keyword=gmp+guidelines+food+industry
    • http://dilomexow.westervillejayceepool.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739654/766625.pdf
    • http://foduwexax.metaphysicshouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383544/7035792.pdf
    • http://files.ronnieli.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164239/c4ebf804e.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8341/5204/files/kefare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5887/2998/files/nuklearna_fizika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0819/5735/files/39776527972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8488/1824/files/sequin_formal_dress_uk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0677/0849/files/26467871679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9812/1119/files/nilusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2797/files/61374282224.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/9398/6199/files/23322287104.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7729/5516/files/10080121216.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6599/8501/files/declaration_of_federal_employment.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000600f.bin
9781e9c8d2d654a11b5edfb44cd245776f5ad320a974509356debdb03d94aa31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x600F 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000719f.bin
7e68928e7aba43359e7a822d3d7b252371b3db684efad253e6e86a8e1066ff7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x719F 10012 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000093da.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93DA 4324 bytes