Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11aa360174e0f394…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 01:04:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2febbc1ffc302425c74e66d397b78da8 SHA-1: d2303f134d529222204bd7c1d94a0efef3d274c3 SHA-256: 11aa360174e0f3946dad8d14d706a47d55af098771228823803c15673a4baeeb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a game download, suggesting a social engineering pretext. The presence of numerous external PDF links further indicates a link farm used for SEO manipulation or distributing malicious content.

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=america%2527+s+army+2.+8.+5
    • http://files.alexandroquerevalu.eu/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636828/nivam_gerizukunami_gozuwakivok.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4364/2792/files/accounting_tutorial_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8073/6165/files/25458656421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8869/9802/files/tunojiwagi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1949/3785/files/tewegonopunapega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6107/4337/files/filmic_pro_crack_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/6565103434.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2517/0595/files/anuraga_devatha_movie_audio_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/9538/4225/files/3_bahadur_full_movie_utorrent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4742/9031/files/dale_carnegie_sales_training.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5670/1346/files/rune_factory_4_smithing_guide.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_off0000e235.bin
06e6ee6f541764be1c359b45acc7ed3ac3c437c3e6589dd1e43a79bca4afc546
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE235 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ec.bin
ba65e4305fdc8112a6fba66eb7904bcc898da12160d0eda9d00678079c0d138f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EC 10680 bytes