Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c57972510aba928…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:37:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 93169f8f759d9706bb92f6690b284840 SHA-1: 37fc132a4799be4ba62556875a0923d395943ac0 SHA-256: 6c57972510aba928ea9f2e9aa21eea203d02f9274dd55aef3e541f6ef2253b09
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Manually install android sdk mac', suggesting a lure. The presence of a link farm with numerous PDFs hosted on Shopify further indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/wb?keyword=manually%20install%20android%20sdk%20mac
    • http://vogifela.yusofgajahlingard.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814170/78742be2.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6262/4405/files/remotubivexopanozeneku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4861/9419/files/development_economics_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8176/7841/files/nolaki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7362/6524/files/zufukirem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0852/3416/files/74270711002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6862/8892/files/bimutadapekutunit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9389/4044/files/bloodletters_and_badmen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4796/8149/files/english_reading_comprehension_grade_6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6789/1094/files/41816857381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4826/4089/files/11528387110.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3451/6376/files/78764648728.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_off00006b06.bin
fa5e39b1251739bb448733252f78f885f13d086bb8bfedaf17677420c65655b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B06 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cd6.bin
e7479714c67505c23dc85fec7798dfdd93c303655601651183494ae2eaa5febc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CD6 10264 bytes