Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61914c2f22ee23c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:17:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a97288d9faa1c175eba024b1e8d34328 SHA-1: 081e973500d3bd62e60b5ad5c487445aeea1afb3 SHA-256: 61914c2f22ee23c782009cbc84753847d8028b9356641d1c016c9ab9c96fdf7b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, including a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to worksheets and URLs that appear to be part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this is a phishing or redirection attempt.

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/pify?keyword=masculine+and+feminine+worksheets+for+grade+6
    • http://files.davaocityproperties.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409309/jilubigat.pdf
    • http://fiwire.defenseofthespecies.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/wusaziliv_gatikor_rezafutefip.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8039/3639/files/zopepedeluxomin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/57790570823.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5503/7093/files/48717023254.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5662/5829/files/zodadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8157/3279/files/zuzujebububerabifabadinik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7276/6631/files/big_data_hive_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0952/2339/files/7536818231.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6976/7842/files/18641874142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2191/7598/files/excel_whole_sheet_greyed_out.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1778/8830/files/36871894501.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_off000046d4.bin
25787a7721a00f739f3ccaa24db53be95999d8caeaab8f6130c935a7ef480c3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46D4 5748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a52.bin
206cd92fe1f9465302d34cccbf29eb3b78880ee59a9c7b6d7a9c26b8c12437a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A52 13568 bytes