Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bc1ef0907b9b0ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 23:13:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 61636e5405f8e95b57af47c7d50d7758 SHA-1: d8227bd44a16c60d0149fbc1eebefaabf0961e76 SHA-256: 6bc1ef0907b9b0ca0819d2578792d1219c8d6d1b3184316a5ea3e3dfdcf16667
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results and drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/pify?keyword=rigorous+curriculum+design+pdf
    • http://files.fatherspride.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164351/xagokomujokadep.pdf
    • http://files.wicollaborative.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/8321860.pdf
    • http://files.peeblesfootball.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453354/23217837e6.pdf
    • http://files.walkwaysandbeyond.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859895/6351357.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3427/2159/files/pesejozabebakevisedepov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5337/5897/files/milixakepuratabutuwuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8937/1040/files/simple_and_clean_lyrics_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4168/3618/files/97186908081.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0808/9509/files/nccer_electrical_level_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/bujimigovari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8166/2628/files/sujatu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1535/5042/files/70799154859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5278/5055/files/letobuwed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7573/7502/files/life_selector_credits_hack_tool.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_off0000753a.bin
3dce8292a5e06164d0c5410b4c18e9a592a41d20510ec1fa269359ee9266ca1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x753A 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008721.bin
f1edce6d420e386dd08624dce7a4439d8623e3d3a967bf26f8cf8e5a29538019
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8721 10308 bytes