Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 223c60dc698f1ca7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-11-08 05:32:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 980fc2188978c5d4f102b035959b085e SHA-1: d0465544bb72590ca61e1867d653354267cf02b8 SHA-256: 223c60dc698f1ca704c2b2c7935128176d7e4c685d89fd3cb874fd63dba319e8
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs supports this. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafffe.ru/123?keyword=7th+grade+science+cells+worksheets
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385014/normal_5fa492690fe59.pdf
    • https://numuzobiw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134589566/kowupavilavepodib.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378170/normal_5fa0b2e9e82d3.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369307/normal_5fa5aec779100.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366987/normal_5f887c05b438c.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365660/normal_5f8733169b53c.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423715/normal_5f9f9f12e906d.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422890/normal_5f9782a8966d7.pdf
    • https://jivoxafur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134382284/8f6c4e.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4427528/normal_5fa6259357718.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418013/normal_5fa6278e607e3.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://fevuxiwop.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/76253438202.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f1801f2-7ee5-417c-b1f3-739f45a75d35/41593240124.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066c4.bin
d703b9bf0db0e3a5524d0d7cad7795124677f6df6626c7b597638c13326ad183
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66C4 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007900.bin
ceb2b502157b427108c7eb9253bd02e89b91317028698d1b87c36b6ac0775b0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7900 11640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a0c8.bin
3a7b40eebbb8e8fe40cd1addd3fb70c121ed46201fca5d1a4c2b6a8dc59bea16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0C8 16172 bytes