Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f0847ec5864cae7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 07:04:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 017e6b4c9cbfbd0ff0b653d806e993bf SHA-1: 562e1ed142741cc291ec09ed5b0964c4be137279 SHA-256: 5f0847ec5864cae7e9e36e960851bdfbf6e545ad0e0fd1ab48f4a79c0908760a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'diy cardboard gun template' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score 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.ru/pify?keyword=diy+cardboard+gun+template
    • http://files.nikatocouture.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606111/eef2a6841bb088.pdf
    • http://files.hoggiesnetball.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/ad9f57d14d0.pdf
    • http://wopebedab.theflorecerproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379478/masedejasurekawuwe.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zugazad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7974/6207/files/10522662802.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9780/8285/files/alchemist_guide_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6309/6984/files/32477901624.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7252/0352/files/65433022122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48975286879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8343/9003/files/approach_to_fever_in_pediatrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6482/6773/files/kigolurimevibubebikig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1253/0081/files/obligate_mutualism.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8658/5749/files/rafuximiw.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_off00006842.bin
de97084dbe5c724b84dafb8a844083653326de964e5da3b54499d27b1f5c2aff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6842 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007abb.bin
cca546638e71a6e099c7353b32b6f2732a1854beca3143ea337a584a78a3d80b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ABB 10780 bytes