Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6da517ba3864e86a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 02:58:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de62143e33a16c372af57aad882a2588 SHA-1: 3ba19c8dc44363ebec1eee48dea32e1703f698df SHA-256: 6da517ba3864e86a87371efe32fee685d3c2f3bb88e855cfd69da0dd0ef302a8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link disguised as a 'Predator generator 8750 manual' which redirects to malicious infrastructure. The PDF also hosts a large number of links to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate 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=predator+generator+8750+manual
    • http://files.hudsonhighchoirs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874485/ba6e0b55f.pdf
    • http://files.btowncards.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739826/4935224.pdf
    • http://files.spiritofexcellenceworldwide.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874469/d0a4486630b8.pdf
    • http://files.veteransmusicfest.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437862/9046565.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1058/7800/files/45442184577.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8278/4676/files/66315590444.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5649/6794/files/wetuxola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0607/4780/files/57438015362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7248/6564/files/67722552038.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1568/3744/files/boy_meets_world_theme_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2758/6472/files/nitiritimipiradobif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7003/7924/files/fonupawufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9432/files/35087646626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4618/2822/files/castle_hill_samantha_young.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067f2.bin
6fa21ea3400b756650915768063a34b825a213bb3e274cedbaed04aebc1ca83b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67F2 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a00.bin
8dfbe87163b203fdb8218dc55055db1f422a36fe0b79faa7ebf3cf66f353bc47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A00 10804 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009e67.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E67 4324 bytes