Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60da20ddd53587e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 14:23:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 602f6aad89079bd08e13e5b12b5ed1de SHA-1: f0dd0cc3cad236e4ec76e04a7baee7b7160faf5a SHA-256: 60da20ddd53587e8b71917559a7da2339cda9477c773467018bb554e570ec574
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector infrastructure, indicating a malicious intent to lead the user to a harmful destination. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure related to 'physical therapy exercises for sciatica pdf', likely a pretext to disguise the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links further supports the classification as a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or distributing malicious content.

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.com/wb?keyword=physical%20therapy%20exercises%20for%20sciatica%20pdf
    • http://files.cveducators.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438211/bobiwubitilijev.pdf
    • http://files.saujs.co.za/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/8694376.pdf
    • http://files.bigcoveresort.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164100/pegodovilonodagos.pdf
    • http://files.magnusaircraftinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483154/vokeba.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5209/0022/files/old_man_s_war_john_scalzi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4320/9895/files/ruwafovotowugizijus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3291/9720/files/glycosylation_in_golgi_complex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9826/6016/files/1972_cutlass_supreme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0735/0696/files/khan_academy_flappy_bird.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nisexabidubukov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7622/3129/files/23151805297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gidawibozifuniji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6026/5117/files/81442188694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6517/0334/files/free_perfect_attendance_certificate.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_off00006a26.bin
08a4284c940ab731664c32cc001f98d65bc7dbc5b9aaf06bae5ab481335a3d51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A26 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c84.bin
2f39dd32a7f718ab46df3b6e7ce1f16a9b27cc0f315127e8b9de39a4f89e87bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C84 9920 bytes