Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69d6de9e467fa87c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 01:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f2af7b112517b227d070b04ab0006216 SHA-1: daa7634cb8deeb346f90535c4781d1f4a5a37cad SHA-256: 69d6de9e467fa87c99b7c9f9103d7194e555f581780d805fc6c9bffe8a0f652f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the malicious URL. The presence of numerous links, including to benign Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious destination.

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=hierarchy+template+free
    • http://fovusufow.emilyweihing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776031/faxodutegok.pdf
    • http://files.saddlemachine.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814276/0ee471e.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2519/5427/files/pradhan_mantri_awas_yojana_list_2020_assam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2889/8211/files/yum_install_python_2._7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0828/4056/files/72281111006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9981/4040/files/the_blue_book_of_grammar_and_punctuation_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3835/0231/files/92116073070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7253/4166/files/resume_format_for_fresher_accountant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1705/2066/files/ponixufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7578/9215/files/92450340371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2739/8807/files/gedotejufinep.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_off00005ad6.bin
db744d457916cb2b0f0a29bb3dd25c10d35e524c9114a5c0d1e834639cf8a512
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AD6 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c2e.bin
b4ecc93a1487ab5b7ec5633a13356b8c86bdffd4d39d1782de0b0a35df8267c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C2E 9896 bytes