Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f65cc6b7fc7989a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-07-22 06:49:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 28e91ee97b746e92353186cf63bba4f6 SHA-1: 3b52f7952b264e6d5dd5e42f4dd4a9f3712a6ab2 SHA-256: 0f65cc6b7fc7989af5aeb254fb71cd66e9da6dea58b7bd267e14209f41eb620e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to an 'exam schedule'. The presence of many external PDF links, some benign and some unknown, points towards a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via malicious links.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=bput%20exam%20schedule%202019%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bellacalore.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814279/mumubimogamu-fupedevumebat-ropetiwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meredithlubowphd.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379343/757636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annualreport-m2016.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696018/misipasefirefazorude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8475/0743/files/62292810486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3328/8088/files/1047035831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8050/6791/files/48171340193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xapapepukafu952058358.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/75064485915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boravitez.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/75846104768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miwexelak.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/64951485515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanesoneme.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/teponige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dozobozugut.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/36698131164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3485/4051/files/sezumaderiwanuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7526/4919/files/levutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7063/6710/files/90082099510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3884/2779/files/8173038030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0762/2824/files/pawerod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4809/2323/files/91097476516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0311/7719/files/rajulipepudekopuneluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8714/2819/files/19707779345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3161/7945/files/tesipedakerabal.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_off00007c44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C44 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 1620410b0ab6af7cd4b95434dccb26b20831574618533af8dc6eeb14ea44de67
font_01_sfnt_off00008f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F1B 14292 bytes
SHA-256: 7ca515efa3ef160144db5abe2b8e553c908a51fd86b8c8d8311ad0a550ce623f