Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d5a5678f64df1b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-19 13:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 71e4d34b944e2fb74a6ad24c7066822b SHA-1: 1b00f76802f57793f6621bf0d2e716a72f6acd2d SHA-256: 6d5a5678f64df1b0412c0b3d8fa9599dbe7f5e67db65ed7b6806c424fc6bff6d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector URL known for malicious activity. The document body, while containing seemingly benign text about educational worksheets, also includes the same redirector URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high probability of malicious intent.

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/pify?keyword=addition+and+subtraction+worksheets+for+year+2
    • http://files.luxuryjourneytravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606087/pigesopa.pdf
    • http://files.danadanleyphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814258/sazik_rukejuwumer.pdf
    • http://files.handymanloganut.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712315/08f9e4b48fd1.pdf
    • http://files.landsendguildofartists.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606803/nirimakojunuk.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2359/6693/files/30786425645.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9322/1783/files/65315122667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0679/4656/files/75577557354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8425/1285/files/57450714720.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1349/6222/files/vukugirefaguzixamel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2845/4304/files/purified_water_ip_monograph_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6394/3074/files/gixixuxepifepaxefu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4896/8090/files/zipujutimebumiduv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2465/files/b1_english_grammar_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9659/5870/files/77644024350.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5282/5767/files/robe_of_useful_items.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_off00005c75.bin
ec65c05fdf05a618677440b16e5ec63aa15b3818da7e6981467b9008653e0bf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C75 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f8f.bin
e82f0015761cd219b0e0124e5954eab46449a9e4aa25bceda8b36e3d4e495f72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F8F 9948 bytes