Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20c1c6714699a70f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 09:18:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0d1e1ba0a06b89dcc743215bdcbb4cb2 SHA-1: 5f8041d17b074f773c52b8594acadab3c2fe90e2 SHA-256: 20c1c6714699a70f456676000150426af6776f46795ace54c42d3f20b0519376
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bharat+acharya+microprocessor+notes+pdf', is designed to lure users into clicking by appearing to offer academic notes. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=bharat+acharya+microprocessor+notes+pdf
    • http://files.wscotthughes.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637362/xifotanar_nobata_netolixokiw.pdf
    • http://files.rideon365.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856956/mavomirej-ravawatufewo-tupotidaxu-livagirubowot.pdf
    • http://files.doughfordough.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379443/wudanixoluxudaboxiso.pdf
    • http://jineko.mbricktestsite.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776257/bc1251b82.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7905/5000/files/26740570065.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9037/8903/files/wedobuzexuvotav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9482/5376/files/28394728945.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0749/2775/files/90812793838.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8949/4177/files/vorurevokegemimadoxaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pawatofamilafal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6015/7855/files/60906707057.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3853/8904/files/83740456408.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5298/8566/files/vodokovobidovavik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4189/1238/files/sutoborosobevekax.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000442f.bin
356be8fe886a55fb8e0026605ec5f38f013b79f11e6f5f91ee7e1020761c7823
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x442F 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000056ce.bin
13fddd5881727ab9276084a9e7e39cb4ca69e721045777f35e97332712b0dee2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56CE 9572 bytes