Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b1003057d73c0f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 20:58:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fef87d525577b5f483c9538a48ee51fd SHA-1: d2ceec2d7365eca02492f168cd5978abbc947d00 SHA-256: 6b1003057d73c0f32c8381163f0965fa8e2f5c996133ec83d28c1eadf80e5b07
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristics, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm points towards SEO poisoning or similar techniques to distribute malicious content.

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=james+river+va+croaker+fishing+report
    • http://files.seacoastphn.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070894/vixebefogiraba.pdf
    • http://files.rottingfurstudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406535/zuxex.pdf
    • http://nejarum.miguelabrantes.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/zubidami-tazufovefewol.pdf
    • http://tikomerur.vintex64.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683169/d362b9.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8295/6443/files/caquexia_tumoral.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3609/0269/files/mp_map_full_size.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1820/7911/files/trend_net_driver.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8704/4515/files/motatix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/0531/3946/files/certina_1888_ds_podium_titanium_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5225/3863/files/galalapato.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7532/9436/files/rajasthani_bhajan_karna.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000622a.bin
1f68d3d9e432607e7d2a989e91a742028f121e758c5072b0c556e394292c574a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x622A 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007405.bin
09e7a069537af86b3bfcaf62d2862f68453cdf2ef13953a19bde86518015f44b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7405 9500 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009484.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9484 4324 bytes