Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12e6bc564ae5112c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-18 12:55:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dfd85ecd55620bcb4c9e970058f2f339 SHA-1: 97605b8c7ded78f7d370fd3e71dad6c5005256ec SHA-256: 12e6bc564ae5112cab60e795b139ed6af2297d639bfc1322c341a49696795dfd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'English writing skills' and a URL that aligns with the malicious redirector finding.

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=english+writing+skills+pdf+ssc
    • http://files.gmhpn.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775249/mokewifebak.pdf
    • http://sebad.hfglacrosse.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740580/3d3ef121e606b5.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1537/2953/files/4180213887.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3041/2454/files/voxubapuxizinarixigexap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9608/8481/files/importance_of_evapotranspiration.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3973/6487/files/83531290632.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2070/6204/files/spanish_food_pyramid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4939/files/80030763651.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6775/8999/files/the_way_i_are._mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7022/5574/files/97493640362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0808/9509/files/waloxotazebujofamobimebo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7764/0092/files/taximitum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7513/2824/files/56257551170.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_off000066fe.bin
c4ea52a3b491a2dbfa243d77d3428b384393e4759d6da8d8a5277125ef178206
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66FE 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007921.bin
e3d4ede0fb3e0ab9f3abc8a390e03cd476661d47c464a07393823d3508cba5be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7921 10532 bytes