Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f6d706e119311d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 00:22:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b4ca96c132e4e86dc123971dae516302 SHA-1: 9dbfad9b01bd606268dba840f849098f1975ad56 SHA-256: 0f6d706e119311d822f5c1ba7a7223b4bf40957c8c1e5b0bbfd689ab2ef03f83
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for hosting malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a 'high school teacher cover letter template'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely using the embedded links to download further malicious content or redirect users to phishing 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.com/pify?keyword=high+school+teacher+cover+letter+template
    • http://files.doomedtorepeathistory.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814728/mozuvinav.pdf
    • http://tigoxefub.drvegetableinc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873822/f7b3b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/74535711799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6067/4210/files/wefasuvexejuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5279/2982/files/4132599785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4673/9868/files/97296102290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1186/5751/files/introduction_to_graph_theory_douglas_west.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9743/0941/files/78107581057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30106301206.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5072/9634/files/80498072583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7060/3932/files/longest_anime_name.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5312/9640/files/46620279151.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_off000063a7.bin
cf75244c6c82a74b6f105835de44b73b7d3c1d68f20338ed824110a1fe0b8e0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63A7 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075d1.bin
6c6e6c212b4fd451c29fc3e45db82378fcc0515c7dcd1835e6bb2ef4a695d956
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75D1 10180 bytes