Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 068979c0b01d3bfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-07-10 02:41:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-15
MD5: 97fe9304a2bdff4694fae43739f882ef SHA-1: 56b6b786e99dd0f8d07d1c39034b163d73c5031b SHA-256: 068979c0b01d3bfd3d6132136759b5d470a728c418ef806e1b63f6169a8266ec
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, including a known malicious redirector at traff.com. The document body, disguised as a worksheet, contains a large number of URLs pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or engage in phishing by overwhelming the user with links. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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=greatest%20common%20factor%20of%20polynomials%20worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.lgbtmalaysia.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859895/856bde00ec9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.studentworshipcollective.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071289/3112881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brouleepublicschool.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302924/xesonalejilili_kegap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greenforestzambia.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682134/tanizerurafalexemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meladyluna.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740180/jofegebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mizzodcast.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683088/rifalivelatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amystephenmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775186/c2371f7e1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arnoldinnovations.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682134/3634614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.davesartdimensions.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606348/vojetiborakupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wagonwheelacres.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380236/1967631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://nejazotewe.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/89357491804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poginuwikola.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/21805308622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajadofavano.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/pomuwavovefexufija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wenajaxapat.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/pikogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xazudazeliz.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/dikefalujipaxobamobovikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dosuxotebim.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/fojokelibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fofigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/todexarim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xubeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51982080438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/miveguxuxububepevomozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000542b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x542B 5332 bytes
SHA-256: c95699b0b5922455415a03b37b912363654184cdd9af13c839afb2af650a845d
font_01_sfnt_off00006637.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6637 9804 bytes
SHA-256: fea98f7d4a4e1e1b5bca3749c9d499deb61ae2f17582a8068a5e7fcd578a4427