Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a0f132adca58c66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:34:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e50eb8f61d4222d1ac3ae7bf8ebb3f61 SHA-1: 35eece9ced5ab5783f8ea2f9aecddbc69027aed8 SHA-256: 6a0f132adca58c66497b12206bdc55d0a881d49ca501ea6640741b6169ec2a69
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the URL for the malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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.ru/wb?keyword=recuento%20de%20reticulocitos%20fundamento%20pdf
    • http://files.bucklesandbeads.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682338/marefetovabuvi-bufetexetetako.pdf
    • http://files.kristinedizon.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681436/4063297.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/cambridge_igcse_computer_science_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8720/0418/files/69893816866.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0484/6503/files/91704496331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3583/6072/files/50820247245.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/sikuxejatave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5901/9933/files/wirilopukabukajegob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1356/9690/files/dodiwireni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7369/1045/files/convertidor_catalitico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7245/2776/files/xixazudomidaxiramewik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2702/7352/files/construction_project_administrator_job_description.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6774/3139/files/great_britain_history.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_off000058d9.bin
3d6d6fcb2a6175dbd625cfe1c7bb614cf6867dc1d842f64d46b3fc89fd936b67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58D9 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006acd.bin
b11a674fea81de825f3c97ca24ad4474a82324e36bcc5ba1f3fce54e433ea910
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ACD 11040 bytes