Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65885783627b2116…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 17:06:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cf293f5a78454809ed66ad6b9f3fb701 SHA-1: 7c43a872581a5fc9510432ce88c266dce3d4bd42 SHA-256: 65885783627b21165dbd7d1c3be3991b82b407452884abbf16fbf0c220268a7b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent link, disguised as an educational resource, redirects to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=class+10+mathematics+solution+pdf+download
    • http://files.vancouver-landscaping.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858747/gajimolu.pdf
    • http://files.oakridgeridingclub.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452872/d4ffcc2.pdf
    • http://files.kimballstjosephs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453494/bitoligogavadesunir.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/botolewapaniwid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2408/9242/files/barewarumop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/dizulowuwulevixenofen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3137/8590/files/medical_lab_quality_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4392/1820/files/tubemetokafanokaredururil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6539/2804/files/35346588589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2804/5209/files/minecraft_max_enchantment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9902/7611/files/xaduj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9040/1687/files/sobaliju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kepudanunakadop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6995/4456/files/29885745632.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5620/9819/files/79678608462.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_off00008704.bin
2eb8837ffb921cb55805ec493a34f7d3aef24d2fd3ff4d27b220d97aaef73377
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8704 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000999c.bin
6cf26abdfb576b6b8b18f982cb1eecb058f27e9d2f8cceaddcf1914c2051e1ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x999C 10624 bytes