Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d78e7f04a374870…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 12:55:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 665d371713ebe7c768af504e09fdcb6a SHA-1: 9d2e3f11209fa70894cb8fc52f295abb68e73648 SHA-256: 6d78e7f04a374870ed75256f128dae93a4ac4899ad30a6158d77e3639d1e82ce
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a worksheet answer key, which is a common lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure 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.com/pify?keyword=informational+text+structures+worksheet+answers
    • http://files.organizingwithemily.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741029/donuzen_mixolofamig_xenubatoluxo_sutov.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3123/2661/files/81423302666.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6278/0311/files/63419756712.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5896/1320/files/zubemizobuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/32150460784.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8991/1194/files/73998852622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5830/8006/files/sadomuvewarapezovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6149/1365/files/mac_default_browser.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6802/3194/files/28306443231.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9175/3115/files/arabic_language_with_english_translation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3279/7603/files/cost_of_goods_sold_spreadsheet_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1714/1415/files/22669088479.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5675/1002/files/rizesu.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_off00006a84.bin
3ce9f91f6c320d7e4bfe292b4c52d5b29f038b0c118ecdaa837738a5d256d117
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A84 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c5b.bin
aada935a3ce2ce28d73f28a957fc7141ee3efcb2d5c0c63392b28e7a91ac1c42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C5B 10264 bytes