Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c103c8c357fdd65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 05:05:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 80aa915eb2114ff8319082ae9a7a8597 SHA-1: 1c5523b5fac9ac85b0a0d5d1503ed6b95f9fbc44 SHA-256: 6c103c8c357fdd650728558091b768d3286130d1c1cdbf7d263f559b89df70b2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document also functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to lead users to harmful sites.

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=types+of+relationship+boundaries+worksheet
    • http://files.shakespeare-garden.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738710/e4de2b84c6.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5782/3390/files/75043734947.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9993/9235/files/devunosipus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4747/7667/files/78168311758.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7757/4562/files/antihistaminicos_2017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2524/4053/files/324516055.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/25920436355.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6553/0785/files/fundamentals_of_logic_design_7th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/0370/7296/files/adsorption_chemistry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8454/6209/files/minecraft_highschool_rp_server.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_off00006e1e.bin
29aecf0c89528c6dc3ee8bda7cde3883b26462846a495b888b2e529674855b06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E1E 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080c9.bin
7f49d7ca13be3fb7da33087e0f9cfa99df22b97e914e89a723ab4d5cd9d05756
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80C9 10796 bytes