Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d675d58280233a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 12:32:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ee7be3948b7b90623bc1405eb39f9c83 SHA-1: b374fa506cb906dc4b446ff443ec4e2a3ff7f302 SHA-256: 6d675d58280233a0be7878f88581b32796496c6e94e144f8c5ad63cd4ef93b1d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains a URL that aligns with the malicious redirector.

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=bangla+animation+cartoon
    • http://files.personalfinancialindependence.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969545/1164308.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9849/6412/files/8549100966.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9652/3423/files/gajerebanatinoletu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5745/3985/files/44513717610.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8461/8653/files/48956400769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2205/6600/files/josuluvobarezamijapatubuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1126/7990/files/65249153999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7812/3680/files/cheap_thrills_song_djpunjab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6100/9829/files/movafaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5618/4996/files/lefenitiruligiwabepimaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5696/2467/files/the_magicians_trilogy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2811/9706/files/74371931403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1544/files/kyoto_japan_travel_guide.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_off00009ff1.bin
727401be2b71020e14a6c3f41b1972b7f46755b1a96d0aa2af58f1609079b63e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FF1 4992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b0cc.bin
64fb38c745bbc92857cfa7d5999c414cf10baea2ba3b1a8e1e1e811e144f8489
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0CC 10192 bytes