Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f0090c3581789d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 09:31:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c31acf14dd44d13bbfc160a29ed7b42c SHA-1: 0de7a3558a71c58a8beff39c63ebb3f985df0bdf SHA-256: 6f0090c3581789d65b21347161f1634d90ffbd1a6384c2c3c291302d1d9d508f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and heuristics indicate it contains a malicious redirector link and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or hosting for malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious redirector URL and several other URLs pointing to PDFs, some of which are hosted on benign platforms but others on unknown domains. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links and the malicious redirector strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to 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.cc/pify?keyword=sea+slug+quick+guide
    • http://files.godssystem.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969717/9792555.pdf
    • http://guzimatu.villaandreja.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871462/ribezududusilez.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2076/0741/files/esic_challan_format_in_excel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7678/6078/files/54886126570.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8482/4222/files/widalaxarutamul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9839/7085/files/83734958320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6905/4886/files/84240823731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9340/2534/files/wekafag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7960/6176/files/guidelines_for_central_line_insertion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1448/7190/files/jigumewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9525/7244/files/agamennone_alfieri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/2940/5336/files/action_bar_background_color_android.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_off00008486.bin
44fe7ca63dee634a912dde400f124f186b59809f7768bd6366a93c1da8a3cd2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8486 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009692.bin
afb4bc43589ef165f2c47f29b97b592730ed4577c8e178c8fc9dde7084502c7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9692 11576 bytes