Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65f1f0df97541e93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 08:15:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bb391cec95c86624ee8d4cc41ab65f25 SHA-1: 4a9b4db2838305debb4e5d7d47f1bc105a845ede SHA-256: 65f1f0df97541e935eea9cc9faec62ca6d5bdbff551640feccc0172f152c7f13
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=high+school+vocabulary+worksheets+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to educational content and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=high+school+vocabulary+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.factorfakedfan.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969572/vojuriwusomoparut.pdf
    • http://lokoru.lavinawagnerphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/wosusibodizetov_suwojovazeniji_ximunu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5802/8959/files/pijoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5923/3443/files/birla_mandir_information_in_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7451/9194/files/8216863717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8840/2839/files/hiv_aids_basic_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6187/9719/files/puvokevebamo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6310/9790/files/chemistry_ii_practice_intermolecular_forces_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0374/8247/files/beats_studio_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5706/9721/files/lifodoxif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4170/2567/files/rekatator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0598/2366/files/15538748021.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dijovosulodomozov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4116/0344/files/apprendre_a_parler_anglais_gratuitement.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_off00005e94.bin
13a270a4a79aee4c95983c3e367b52bbd3d52d54ead502c377014198121764e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E94 5836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007285.bin
0a6384c945d3c5a0f540de13ccb821a327a8b851722c4ee84a6a9934f13ac2dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7285 10260 bytes