Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a08d6fe62833b85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-07-19 05:26:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 1342d7853268bead190881147058a6d8 SHA-1: 625746ce2c1e9028bd7396fe5f071eb9e39a4983 SHA-256: 6a08d6fe62833b8584db804d2392c14abd634fbb9bc253ba33c3a8e7b030e8cd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains numerous links designed to appear as educational resources, but they lead to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple SEO-optimized links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, indicating it was likely generated programmatically to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=venn%20diagram%20math%20worksheets%203rd%20grade In PDF document text
    • http://files.labrottiecreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070452/vizak_dogimowezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ripmarkens.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409909/7335212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mylunchpail.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382239/zubosezapedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.karenstobbe.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606349/niwafonejupara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lindenfestil.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776296/82c752e18c2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.risingachievers.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741064/devupowaxosalaz-buwirase-lugewepajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesoulsalchemy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814687/gonuror_jelegusugajo_gujisanolose_pugijuzepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.agentpgs-qatar.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164311/luvokedekasimubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://gavilot137689634.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/38291061937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawileva.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/vajefaxewuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuwoloza.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/givapabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/13503036424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5454/6590/files/tutiwirutejumevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6714/6397/files/kirabomirowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9726/0192/files/firorake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6042/8962/files/18591576478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8360/3876/files/puxafexorelamuvivadido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3259/2040/files/63393332437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2973/2248/files/ferolajoxuxurogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2491/6388/files/36140272788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4940/2024/files/nozoguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71C8 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 9aec1328207a2ec118b82014cdf762f66a3d6ce70798c3b9b30a8f0e6a2e3579
font_01_sfnt_off000083a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83A2 9928 bytes
SHA-256: d732f007e541ec28585b7a180ee3b7c2a37907225ed5a45571bf95af007bc90d