Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 160980b154294861…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-27 16:37:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c6460e9bf4dc1dc793b3fd22d5bb173a SHA-1: 62496daeb3566d5de0000f7b57e7fa76d527c69e SHA-256: 160980b154294861a11a210b33b4275e2dd5b55d97120122616825e0ae979dd9
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 malicious activity. The document body and metadata suggest a lure related to a book chapter, aiming to trick users into clicking these links. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself is flagged for containing a link farm.

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=american+film+a+history+john+lewis+chapter+1
    • http://files.vlantroop.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453432/6757586.pdf
    • http://files.trailfix.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739309/faruna.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4695/9261/files/11742128918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/kulezejavekekebeximi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6385/9610/files/27332155301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3407/4523/files/berobefawupusozafeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/0004/5211/files/65120053086.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tolipokegegami.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4978/8327/files/9480473972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8640/4000/files/contexto_que_es.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/3427/9837/files/que_significa_languideciendo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7767/1843/files/86773022156.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5088/4505/files/bonebep.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_off000047e3.bin
9cfab9bcabb539e2b5e1199a2a630df01edabddb1666af311b34ca973015c365
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47E3 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ab8.bin
eb2ff6d6c11cb64559a831c9b3938915e6fbf44ba3859c4cb60d616491cb79b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AB8 9748 bytes