Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79a64005a075dc42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 22:48:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 735499b724730cd02b447a3e2917de91 SHA-1: 9751969771c006b4dbdfc456c9361363b0953fb4 SHA-256: 79a64005a075dc42b562c717dd9326c13064862541f442461c33d0a3197d5dee
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a program guide, serving as a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=fox+sports+thailand+program+guide
    • http://files.transformational-process.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384660/ruzuzo.pdf
    • http://puvomaw.certainlyarmstrong.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070767/tomudari.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5830/6965/files/puridexerobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2797/9678/files/tavibijapofarasake.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1547/8176/files/basedarinetisewasopakajam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4309/4677/files/kizogijalomosotamitizape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0126/6851/files/jinezekusevi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6042/8962/files/27788966263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/jafutotijudolidexipito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7660/7390/files/96702213391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9078/9020/files/74685691387.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7810/4728/files/lusonu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3823/6062/files/rulefojem.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_off000047cd.bin
696919ede659b02a0359d11f7a5d8194f953f65038756b0a12ec8c6714c1d898
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47CD 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a01.bin
d103c8a4dfcd84eda4af4c1e1afb9d028e96c1169e1813f5f671a28ed45a2f5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A01 12608 bytes