Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f6b96b73695047c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 17:20:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7460fa52f54d050b7052d92408729a82 SHA-1: 5cab0df50165351d6f2f2ffe182bd8c272908d62 SHA-256: 6f6b96b73695047cd4de0a8030edef60e9136515cc761936a9938a32f6823d91
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to direct users to malicious content. 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.cc/pify?keyword=auld+lang+syne+analysis+pdf
    • http://files.marshahuber.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681946/9daf5.pdf
    • http://files.emoptical.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816036/kutuju-zasarigirukolok.pdf
    • http://files.animalecologylab.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874095/zelaras_pazenejumilod_wexuke_tololojixi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8270/3257/files/lifebon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6603/files/jodedenopama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8280/9497/files/fufotikufevaron.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1175/8491/files/84423252532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7156/9046/files/50298180872.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5362/2182/files/waec_syllabus_for_mathematics_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6673/7311/files/91601080282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5761/8850/files/69668250284.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3152/6561/files/snap_hack_no_survey.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2887/2359/files/98797118059.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/wawedolevejubo.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_off00005fc7.bin
0e529530da1a3556d7c7c18e4dfc30486acfa8fb84d4808788db7f4f914dfdde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FC7 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000719f.bin
b84e1f6485f1346de47c45b6a6090cdd4a659bc73eab8d6aebdda671063ba7e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x719F 9932 bytes