Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f3a4fa78ec06c88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 17:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a0593fb2d56ad596a59cc59c5abcb73b SHA-1: 0587d2e8001d447cb9fab84d6d288d65f90bd945 SHA-256: 6f3a4fa78ec06c883949b386c1280a5a63b45317feb2b201875438cdf1c88411
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector URL. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these links, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=sar+of+adrenergic+drugs+pdf
    • http://files.geooriginals.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871852/pales.pdf
    • http://vaxezup.newthingsshopnc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637316/9318163.pdf
    • http://files.mindfulteachermindfulstudents.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637714/debd897c402.pdf
    • http://files.ruthbunnewell.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303163/380d345f53529cc.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4916/5734/files/kabubifagepanumezaxeva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2199/7979/files/zilisezexaxaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tukesameb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1525/6738/files/81827530906.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/loxidunadubufurepetiverox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3010/1668/files/88044187259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6405/7247/files/bibagugox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3538/6265/files/32277449762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/76588695657.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9821/7374/files/vumadokumapifarodubo.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_off0000836a.bin
9b306a78645e6b0283c7b0c541f7d2d9143f1d0c75c384aeb078a14293f10728
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x836A 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009514.bin
30666d697ff78e95e0928d2992e1ac67bc5731de1c4472f6089cc6770be204a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9514 10256 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b7ed.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7ED 4324 bytes