Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6478a217e11a38b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-10 19:26:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8229c7d63ae99f89ecdfae518494e257 SHA-1: 637598cde8931d3f8639fe03683efcadf6fe3a93 SHA-256: 6478a217e11a38b7ae5376df739870afb3092d8a78ec16a5d4a953071394d440
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic. The presence of numerous external PDF links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=american+sign+language+alphabet+printable+pdf
    • http://files.livelaughlovedream.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857199/4618978.pdf
    • http://jipij.kingdomtransformationchurch.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681504/jefejo.pdf
    • http://files.oxfordstation.pl/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739218/lirabuwawar.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/70945418412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8849/5270/files/5932150133.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6251/8182/files/41579270623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3365/7507/files/wufuderiwenizowi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5737/files/lomamuvaviwezolazil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0764/7639/files/denonerifamotuwamo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/54564440746.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5049/2316/files/jexadaxiripof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2344/0804/files/gojoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59854739703.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_off00005b84.bin
cbf820367def29bdfbf66c0ab6ce98a4a627e043277593452e0fea75b3e9d46e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B84 5700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006ea4.bin
7952aac0700fa70615910827b208d87a1aa1ac3a9e7fb219953878c38fd437c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EA4 10012 bytes