Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a3ae448e5430c36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-16 19:58:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fcb59e7347c242eafd79538ed44019fa SHA-1: 2ad38d578342227a3420556edd1f1644e5922760 SHA-256: 7a3ae448e5430c3696df96020368bd9d6f96170b4c22f70c0fdcaa238449b175
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a 'snake java game'. The presence of multiple PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/pify?keyword=snake+java+game++phoneky
    • http://files.norwoodcavies.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969364/4052b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0047/9391/files/82904988686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2070/6204/files/mupapuluzov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4528/0161/files/jozolaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/mapajidarukuvusisalaxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4488/7966/files/kitchen_hygiene_and_sanitation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8524/1245/files/roluzoxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/questionnaire_on_alcohol_consumption_among_students.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0714/7166/files/23531880335.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1526/6713/files/application_form_for_medicaid_in_florida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/3758/5571/files/read_csv_r.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_off00005855.bin
b30e0a6e3cffc2a9794ef70c6271a98f228d0c65f6a422a5ec1946b1e0fc33ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5855 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a6c.bin
ab0903788fc1456d5e470438f6cfbcaa64d6823ba687645d120674f1455b9290
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A6C 14904 bytes