Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6617811d6b8100fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-09-05 11:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a0f2e875b1661f2b90ef2ec184e2facb SHA-1: 50316ebc42c1b38241bb2a32fc261d681e9f4d54 SHA-256: 6617811d6b8100fcc800bd8dee98aa89af137f48a6f72080f1761427764397ff
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an 'Entomology study guide' and the malicious URL, indicating a lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score support this assessment.

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.link/pify?keyword=entomology+study+guide
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1898/5370/files/nosiwutupipidorifo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5847/0822/files/baazigar_odia_film_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0427/files/ip_address_on_iphone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3448/2587/files/msc_molecular_biology_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/depuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/2211/4970/files/mayora_indah_annual_report_2012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5066/3073/files/m_f_g_ka_full_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4658/files/automatic_pneumatic_hammer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7076/6750/files/82074665156.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1991/0811/files/nifaxidawodexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0672/2211/files/simile_and_metaphor_lesson_plan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5018/0503/files/afrontamiento_al_estres_definicion.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d13b2cf7acd44bf5a61c0a29e2f928d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6cfc61_880ddc332c9c431dbbf7f520a2baf8f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fb5067_f1c73cbeafe4431b8cd08421e014b484.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_off00007d41.bin
7ebcc49405a95d46dd715f5cfdcc88935494900de5fee741942683cedeee68ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D41 4900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008dec.bin
48a25d2390c978d514c42b73b5506e9e06455df4b03e722bc9d71440b9bc3a8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DEC 10616 bytes