Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67f6eb5514790a77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-07-31 11:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5840fead3c7999f81b3c08e9323bf722 SHA-1: 4dacd62fe29ac2e63428fc2a36c3c88e5ec8eacd SHA-256: 67f6eb5514790a77aff7890c833cbd5d904bfb732130080939961dce0f93cb4a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to lure the user to a harmful site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to an economics course. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports a link farm or redirection strategy. No scripts were extracted, but the primary malicious behavior is the redirection via the embedded link.

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=curso+de+econom%25C3%25ADa+de+la+empresa.+introducci%25C3%25B3n+2020+pdf
    • http://files.atohmit.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636728/toxerij_dipotunobiwo_jobuxedewisilu.pdf
    • http://files.houseremodelingsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776590/4743540.pdf
    • http://files.macdonaldcounselling.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636890/dededixubi.pdf
    • http://files.rotarysanjuanbautista.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680922/146664.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/vewobisapowodur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2969/2577/files/zuramaxuradimotawasuvil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/pesag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/42539854631.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mafimovudowejiner.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8032/7070/files/20296967370.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4740/3168/files/sovonatunesib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2732/files/xogukufijewidega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zixetirubopejama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0028/2783/files/30604522213.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_off00007977.bin
80557a69bc1fbf58a8413b575689bc066fd50361167359911b01b37f296b1a02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7977 5700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c80.bin
bfe6a5f21e02914735320f7a54d27e8d6f0e082195829f93c75da0b1d70cc05c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C80 11120 bytes