Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f33afebc1c979b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 11:21:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c3db6bcf02833e74d3e0ffa2d0fe925b SHA-1: 38dca928b1d76a60eca6b6f79bf0db551de88036 SHA-256: 6f33afebc1c979b59b018a04af52508ec04ec1de7117f0e47018c3b2514794ce
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes a URL that appears to be a lure for a book or resource. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or redirection scheme.

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=ageless+body+timeless+mind+full+pdf
    • http://powiji.centralrefrigerationinc.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483167/a81d0.pdf
    • http://files.tfamcon.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776795/eff2f1c7baeb6a2.pdf
    • http://petivuja.spbarchitecture.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710507/fc26fa.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6844/9180/files/99664452001.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3064/1829/files/effortless_english_full.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3652/2149/files/gofenegab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9870/9918/files/oil_bottle_mockup_psd_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4507/files/xepurakaguzefapesapu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8855/2870/files/the_hobbit_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1008/8342/files/resmed_airsense_10_autoset_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4907/3312/files/fugadiloxigafato.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/37267241831.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_off00004726.bin
5dbe960a12278c119179e6c231ac3bfa88e3e8d1fb2e847e7a035b926bfd9b4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4726 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058aa.bin
469eafda37c07377a53a06e7ff8c39a989e81371145357b6fa7c9a047c48dc76
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58AA 9580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007971.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7971 4324 bytes