Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c77e9cb16c195dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 01:33:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8933b7332317a0db16188149b7135c3e SHA-1: 3fbe84151a28d610db9a2a9dad212e389d0772b9 SHA-256: 6c77e9cb16c195dc3f49f3e60e2842075bf0dcf57655402b38ccc2f9ee86d4da
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector URL, identified as malicious. It also exhibits characteristics of an SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'wpf interview questions' and a URL that appears to be part of the SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.com/wix?keyword=wpf+interview+questions+and+answers+for+experienced+in+.net+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cafc24_84f908925819464dbe609ff0d710c24b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/868401_46bc46adc1be4929b8d5eb048aa6b117.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_101e8f5226d84ff894c937a105c3a3f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ff653_0490a24bcc714b04bcf67e27b6853960.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4f270c_961bf9396a1d437b90123cb728ef353a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c250_1c8f12f8a47c4f8bbd2597433e6d65d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7f9a4365e1224fc896f2ac8074c61f03.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0457/5387/files/57940522752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/6569/1560/files/xuvegajigozitokeditezimi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3913/5643/files/60631100254.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2986/3320/files/72449269688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8378/3575/files/mathematics_content_methods_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3903/8360/files/jugavubanum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9486/6088/files/padewaperolokiwinejana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5439/0687/files/34661910063.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_off000080f1.bin
dff984a944c0226bb11ab3c8871b03b094185bfffdf9c928c70496cf596f67bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80F1 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000093d7.bin
2463f9223978e04a88b0f9dc88fa8b21cbe4386764694f8ea5cca606a20332b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93D7 10744 bytes