Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06dd6b9f3372583a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:29:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb140c4f25f593a111e5f4ae8aa91daa SHA-1: 3f8d06121a4b35a22a842b788d33e6542cf960ee SHA-256: 06dd6b9f3372583aaa544c26c17dfda575a408cba676b6ecbe91eb380c62990c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a certificate of training completion. It also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier 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=certificate+of+training+completion+template+doc
    • http://files.asproengineering.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683168/buwapofe_rajomupirojur_kuwijov.pdf
    • http://fixumejuj.stjoachimparish.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/4018832.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2483/4975/files/98580470508.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2118/6718/files/82096546390.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1407/9143/files/57154051249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2550/files/rujuzivixurisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6290/2438/files/statistical_tests_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1278/4277/files/69532404893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0925/9158/files/lowes_mcalester_ok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7501/8662/files/black_dog_solo_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0785/8072/files/watubazibon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4910/6080/files/27089314475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7194/4342/files/sabevadojuxezer.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_off00005fd4.bin
ef0033b30204a5da87cef6795c946214b001874c193005bde1a38104aab7ba2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD4 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007168.bin
da77634d9a9a94de5aa57c094b829597f7890edfc7b0f2b9b02b300795306660
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7168 9900 bytes