Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1579c5f13bd3f767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.7 KB Created: 2020-08-19 14:04:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8b84db9d620ef3fb82d3ad10fa03957 SHA-1: dc4b0a1b9ffff15fe286fa3e92c02ee89d1d0c43 SHA-256: 1579c5f13bd3f767fcc3fc2369f2bff1f0f7cab55308ec24a1f330fc2ba3760a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a design guide and the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate malicious intent.

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=blow+molding+design+guide
    • http://files.tayahanson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438839/86b5c32b995.pdf
    • http://bajupab.reddooryogastudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776457/3923751.pdf
    • http://gusajogep.learnarmenianonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382134/gopiratajekan.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5519/4011/files/20315424015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7152/0414/files/disodob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0536/9758/files/radogux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7471/4784/files/xebalofuber.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8286/6083/files/divixif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nulanevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9281/1669/files/witivudoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5845/2897/files/the_physical_universe_15th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6857/files/46933573519.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2965/0843/files/28778963560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9691/5621/files/takizasovuwiwozazamagov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0004/5465/files/braun_combimax_700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2758/6472/files/26537946651.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_off00009da8.bin
b32597867ce4e2c180f1cf972a2de75bdc7f266d0a10976ef067c5d553782605
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DA8 4980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ae9f.bin
d761f50fb449f5cf169acc5d40742cd49b6af959db0c715672c610b6f62cbb54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE9F 10208 bytes