Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74aedf092266b4c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 22:26:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0522add1964bddb93daf3929b1b0ab0 SHA-1: 2af8923bb41a642e66d2a3604c060f0745cd9789 SHA-256: 74aedf092266b4c34bfbf7f5a9d33ee00ed906703a4bd95a7512ff5a43ed7049
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text suggesting it is a manual, which is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the presence of malicious redirector links.

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/wb?keyword=craftsman%20pressure%20washer%20manual%202550
    • http://tixijonek.normcaronphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/6059956bdd9458.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2381/9164/files/different_types_of_composite_materials.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8361/9738/files/5673147997.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9747/1656/files/24072419229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3170/8316/files/91694313078.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4640/2213/files/furomirogetisifuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4646/8769/files/666949399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8893/7120/files/95818774736.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4841/8973/files/79359840291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0084/5720/files/virtual_walkie_talkie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2104/0789/files/mathematical_programming_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3600/0931/files/68325093427.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/76423385748.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_off00006f3b.bin
1319c8bf922a7ce6b50e8947d626ce8ab4d7782515bb19caf3825bf584a6cb56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F3B 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081f1.bin
36cdc1a920d2382881eda1dae3416792d0af2048c45e966e03451c6a096be14f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81F1 10272 bytes