Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c93173e42c641d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 09:13:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2b9e4dd634493539b31eababe197c8a0 SHA-1: 75b3e61164c3d9ff706ed3c418a2dd379b823c29 SHA-256: 0c93173e42c641d1544629fcd2cf8d9f913d86f4f841c2f8c47b7bfa4d2fbbaa
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites.

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=cvcc+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.fishguyzscuba.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453421/3277708.pdf
    • http://files.harrydwyerphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738779/bekoduf_bubilano_tonujifu_xitifoka.pdf
    • http://salulo.glitchedworks.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/6236858.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7361/7576/files/liwofoxifun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8068/7520/files/pibawafujeximavekilav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3524/5216/files/fazomadezatitivomeredi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9290/9987/files/pleural_fluid_cytology_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5661/8917/files/cluster_computing_and_grid_computing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3332/9817/files/lexical_error_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5266/1912/files/gadifizabesutevizi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3149/4810/files/66418542131.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1413/4692/files/gefakine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8827/2805/files/baghban_rab_hai_baghban_song_ming.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5265/2951/files/fabimajatipabud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5056/4773/files/europass_cv_english_template.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_off000044cb.bin
0afede4c8ba0324905cee370076caf268defaad45428bf7dd4913c317b786f6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44CB 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005648.bin
53f6374e4213356da7660858947127a5ca0afd8c45829fecbd52bdd758ba4b49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5648 9396 bytes