Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f7bfa0efbfa1aaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-11-06 14:47:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c7b61ee1fad20d3b30314d64fff70056 SHA-1: 9c3c40b18635bce64a81abfdbd5eae74e1ee4968 SHA-256: 2f7bfa0efbfa1aafec4a38ee7443d398961f8bf57f6082f01d2d67d6f108b7ba
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which are dynamically generated or part of a link farm, suggesting a malicious SEO spam or phishing campaign. The document's content is presented as a '2020 science olympiad manual' to lure victims. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure itself facilitates the embedding of numerous URIs, including the suspicious traffking.ru domain.

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://traffking.ru/aws?keyword=2020+science+olympiad+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4387412/normal_5f9d8c548272e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420587/normal_5f96ffe51e880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379236/normal_5f8ae7a938633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tibiwurab.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695994/d19f0c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vonubaxuted.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452839/849755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379482/normal_5f8e9997cd196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzaloxamuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406684/73c798b12cde3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365563/normal_5f88d3138871c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366341/normal_5f872269d17e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kudufigunabi/vudikixirejutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/842ec793-4b96-4b71-8b2b-4b97f91adc75/marines_united_photos_4chan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/989961f3-c36e-4f0f-aeeb-f71dbfb8c017/pathos_ethos_logos_kairos_telos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C09 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 5e58dd47455c0de6029322be10d91ccb1433d7d4683cb0c774f3034e7804dd1a
font_01_sfnt_off00006e60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E60 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 2e1acf20ec39fd1f36993d93feedec0cf953ec26412f1dc8b8aa1014f2faba88