Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dc0ab6ec9138f34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-01 16:03:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 80f09134aaa00fee85d1d3b2a60376a5 SHA-1: 3084fcda489565c9dda0777d0a22221178950fad SHA-256: 6dc0ab6ec9138f3411358530af9d1863635a95af84d1eff86944a73708d2e1b8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a link farm infrastructure designed to distribute malicious content. The primary redirector URL is identified as malicious, suggesting the document's purpose is to lead users to harmful sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the document body's content, while appearing benign, is used as a lure for the embedded malicious links.

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.ru/pify?keyword=invitation+to+computer+science+7th+edition+pdf
    • http://files.barrons-independent.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969775/kunapa-nubavase.pdf
    • http://files.onehealthepigenomics.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453124/9169272.pdf
    • http://files.melissamakesmoves.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437530/bafowuxilan.pdf
    • http://files.prabeer.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740158/38bd36c41.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7656/7711/files/53791552612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4662/files/vibavowowobujelazigarasix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7139/6257/files/salesforce_lightning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5428/5479/files/6713469803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92904811518.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3489/4755/files/95961515045.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3459/1907/files/faxirojemube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/kyocera_cell_phones_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0866/3457/files/sibukivalufoxakim.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_off000064c7.bin
abe1d403979fbed068b75c4858bd3b3f8daa8cd62905e6320d5b3f4f4e3b3393
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64C7 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000772d.bin
831425c020310b592f1a054f857b894635ced6b978bc9a8fe876bffb8c625f9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x772D 10336 bytes