Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b9829e57c57bbae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 17:28:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eeff12e0fd4bccccaba1f28515ed1b08 SHA-1: 1ea4dcfaef2fd1d9c6d1b1d47afa067bfdf7da6d SHA-256: 6b9829e57c57bbae1bef009205f303a4013077a31a4eb2dc696dc5290dd9296d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service designed to obscure malicious destinations. The primary malicious URL identified is a redirector that appears to be part of a link farm strategy. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of these links and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate a malicious intent to lure users to harmful 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=adjective+superlative+exercises+pdf
    • http://tizibi.learningforlittlepeoplepreschool.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/2aeff.pdf
    • http://files.glacialnaturals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409463/sodejax.pdf
    • http://files.finalfinishdetailing.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/levin_linebedanelu_vidaki_vukadidi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3380/5471/files/8938912547.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1656/9500/files/40060747778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3184/5271/files/language_planning_in_sociolinguistics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6514/files/61231714144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/4258/1153/files/driver_application_letter_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9802/9733/files/wii_u_torrent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8198/0317/files/wudofobev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7798/2626/files/wavin_flags_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1149/files/vekodusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1446/3394/files/41273992440.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_off00004308.bin
e07aa1ce3a7a95d0d30a0480b0df1323345e2c793f9316190cb590e8f0a32dd5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4308 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005550.bin
cc6179adbbd59ec2f20ca569c4c74e5e9b9127d20ec387072a76f8d5c3d5c3e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5550 9820 bytes