Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65082aa3e6dbdf67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:17:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 60413b767c245e3f915bc3493646bd79 SHA-1: 43ed689cbc433564d494d92f207b77aa7cf1acd2 SHA-256: 65082aa3e6dbdf6742eed350739f3b8559dcf1f323f8bc6ba061bbbe87d59464
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to external resources, including a known malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate that the PDF is designed as a link farm, likely to direct users to malicious websites. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this sample as malicious.

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.ru/wb?keyword=mitosis%20and%20meiosis%20matching%20worksheet
    • http://files.flashforge.com.hk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069789/5893958.pdf
    • http://files.backcountryhunters.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740189/befus_sufosojat_femuwipubalata_vemiredefen.pdf
    • http://zimat.sisterhoodtravels.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856917/5932530.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7622/2114/files/52399878722.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7485/4820/files/nokuluridab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7146/3831/files/xanozumopobevabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/95283438805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4903/3640/files/wimitedipatiwije.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2058/2050/files/badorew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4386/4228/files/lipotopufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8579/0358/files/gowefepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5743/8101/files/26115631273.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/5638982644.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/lilitujijonuj.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_off0000435a.bin
60df8720e901ca3a6fd83a01b159a991458b96510302951ba175f56a0c9bfe90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x435A 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055f1.bin
f9d1cecc772ee53f21301388f97afd9d9f4f06ec0aa5cbb3f0f746d7ec9c8007
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55F1 9216 bytes