Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12dcff43aabb1843…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 10:43:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 05c7c627d592bb505f4411ebe216f877 SHA-1: e9c5d89a15ed1c1b055c91a2a223f577edabc4b6 SHA-256: 12dcff43aabb1843c6474c4fdb3de3d4cb13ceb3ad9b20d394c06ec1cf834c7a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or redirection tactic.

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=leg+rope+length+guide
    • http://files.surveyofps2.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380687/mamuv.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4912/3993/files/pojenogujikamopupoxudix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7530/4612/files/fault_line_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5552/1700/files/jodonagesagatuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5312/9640/files/clone_sd_card.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3902/2494/files/blue_hawk_tools.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5671/6186/files/22370499331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8407/8503/files/pdf_book_reader_download_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1282/2939/files/business_card_maker_program_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8909/8907/files/kimya_bileiklerin_adlandrlmas_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8888/7460/files/21171396391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5478/2869/files/ncert_maths_class_10_arithmetic_progression.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9003/5366/files/99887629453.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_off0000735c.bin
e8634723a921424708d019aabe33bdd3462a34f0d5e7d0b72f55b558e934c33a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x735C 4776 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008392.bin
28af8dbff647cd83c8dc5a117300e522bc901b98475549927c4ded121389a7eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8392 10420 bytes