Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eef51ec5adfa6ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-07-23 14:41:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8ad9cf8666b1de0655c9b9f8f09ceb95 SHA-1: 22a46093f7f116265c75fa0b9eca49bd07fe6767 SHA-256: 6eef51ec5adfa6ba3936d50d109b1ff3ed0ba46f7d1591f6270bfa803959459b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'phenolic pipe insulation data sheet', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=phenolic+pipe+insulation+data+sheet
    • http://files.purplebroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071137/zetujaropenu-mozug-lubanam.pdf
    • http://files.sillylillybook.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874246/wexadijixaxefijow.pdf
    • http://files.nayansfiji.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740637/9313649.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9675/0742/files/laleruripoboses.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/46092520919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4066/8838/files/13071723179.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6381/3020/files/28986378381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1319/2349/files/tojifinadizojudojo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7237/3414/files/dotib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9217/3217/files/98757638804.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/76102764406.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0623/8613/files/57710794428.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3046/3135/files/xebisakejezobigipunaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1659/3312/files/78135981639.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3906/4225/files/32239742633.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_off00006a40.bin
76ee80ed19bb21f9461ca5e6b7ef326c73f9e65c447dd88a974a19cd6a21dc33
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A40 4948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b04.bin
5d45db92706c1917b8ef2819dc98bfed3e5aec3cba24ed88c3b481dda5509176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B04 9824 bytes