Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68a15c8c34fc3102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.7 KB Created: 2020-08-28 01:50:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d597dc3181eabfb030a23de35cf89900 SHA-1: e01a6f2a22ea7bd61e3697c266b7f65926d16e8e SHA-256: 68a15c8c34fc3102108177e703f05d100557bee94f5d507ed4ef748eab034d71
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to other PDFs.

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=native+american+prayer+stick
    • http://bujez.thesilkfamilyproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071164/3cae7ab7.pdf
    • http://folawime.diolicovid19.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454106/3157395.pdf
    • http://files.khwajaexports.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379567/tudinipumitakilexaz.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5632/3995/files/gesop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4337/3735/files/sawexul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9897/2066/files/fexepanururofulotabajotem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8553/6159/files/murejujize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4974/files/lumekizal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2880/6808/files/social_club_server_status.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7506/7294/files/72325304191.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1916/4058/files/updated_cpr_guidelines_american_heart_association.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1760/1181/files/how_to_open._gz_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9660/2779/files/44488577625.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6318/0438/files/adobe_photoshop_step_by_step_tutorial.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_off0000ca38.bin
89bea7365f86d400754b095fd22b46e33255b05a380b35fed1b3969663646b0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA38 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc08.bin
1bc8db4311f9438e79fcf06d16cca44d142dc87c880f11be87a83b0e9f3d4ba3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC08 10060 bytes