Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64531b8cf30e0026…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-13 13:30:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 76037928c5d3479a395c179369751749 SHA-1: d8ff88420885a715f29aac9e00a8ea776d2be795 SHA-256: 64531b8cf30e002673133017941553690bd11b8306b580c07438ef375e9ec085
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to a URL that appears to be a SEO link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to downloading a book, and the primary URL is designed to mimic a search result for a book download. The presence of numerous external PDF links further supports the link farm hypothesis, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to potentially 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.cc/wb?keyword=tale%20of%20two%20cities%20book%20pdf%20free%20download
    • http://files.craigengstrom.ninja/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302833/7088776.pdf
    • http://rofegib.dexandra40.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/2628443.pdf
    • http://files.poleshiftnews.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636632/vomarowe.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/judegesuzopo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1955/9335/files/99051688938.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6680/9765/files/94568510082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6857/1298/files/jurnal_pluralisme_budaya.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1509/3920/files/26160184058.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29480145432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9432/7975/files/nosedosibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0716/4064/files/wunefifogovafamun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1461/8262/files/winotiwirodukedal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4742/0066/files/72842906824.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_off00004d20.bin
c2c59ae8a225f402d32fcc1dc182084ca192d4322e6cb555173f30349bab25f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D20 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f98.bin
64299eb7651dab0669e81d9ff80f7e64db49be4da195359a30b33275aa7c4f3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F98 9820 bytes