Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ecdf7d427840e19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 09:49:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bbd2753ea136b94c69eb16a78df26141 SHA-1: 58a76b2e69b21e8367b79cee55a7313f3ff9a119 SHA-256: 6ecdf7d427840e197ddbc16a14b701e3c8841cb8793bab2c39f6dfe49181a176
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of the link farm, suggesting a social engineering tactic to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites.

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=xamarin+android+app+tutorial+pdf
    • http://files.unnatilok.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871994/dodojozo.pdf
    • http://files.gumbeerfest.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163712/ad7d6335.pdf
    • http://files.teamzoecancersucks.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383892/jagadawuwune.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1533/1227/files/jotatew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8921/5129/files/favagupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2553/8980/files/pebibikirefope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5398/1594/files/stone_sword_minecraft.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuxovozukirofavekejob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/45860295701.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4675/4714/files/latex_beamer_include_slides.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3873/5517/files/ubuntu_12._04_sources._list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/39738284996.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/4202/6150/files/gigaware_usb_to_serial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7153/6285/files/xitixobuwoduvapopel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8792/8223/files/cardiology_textbook_free.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_off000060b8.bin
a72aa95e5233212454e0c7c416178a2dbc4bb8c65b45d04f0682ce5b8387fcf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60B8 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007194.bin
7b84076037aada09435d93063f37320b02014f316a9db91ef36632529cf545cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7194 14792 bytes