Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67205b63c55ed387…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 08:02:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b9fbb45d14b9842aceeb1e8a7e191ba5 SHA-1: 818e5d5b005fb0c86320de1df0b2872ac950c29a SHA-256: 67205b63c55ed387809aced1d48f7fab59eaa3542acf5fdacc86d0db77f38bc5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or lure users to malicious sites. 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/wb?keyword=internet%20addiction%20essay%20pdf
    • http://files.awazetours.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452878/xederen.pdf
    • http://files.madridistasatl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740480/tarutajaluna-vapogaxo.pdf
    • http://files.sophierobinsmosaics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739398/bce3c3e8635f.pdf
    • http://files.nologoproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776462/2393184.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81274949660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8385/7053/files/16744434882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7581/0966/files/tefagejoluxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4349/5842/files/twinkle_twinkle_little_star_piano_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9350/8771/files/42280076815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8168/6437/files/leduwedefigefodeno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vuwunojipodaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3395/1399/files/zokatofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4844/9686/files/46481863270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0857/3085/files/36795187361.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6498/2693/files/zagenugogomibafidubafusa.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_off00008b32.bin
cf849be7a54a46eaca328351444be0d0943792df9f97950579aabe610bc7d47f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B32 5156 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009cd6.bin
dacda1cc5f6a7d3a18c733ff9a489caa757300da073da274cc3ef65be41c3510
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CD6 10304 bytes