Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f85bd37e21f0679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 23:48:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 493f6bbec4c4f0cb8349b1f020ad87be SHA-1: 481e9ec156d9495ea69ea8ee5d1fcad8d8164fd1 SHA-256: 6f85bd37e21f0679a4c1ccd041106b5726f3e7c98e9aa2c5302aab0dd7844300
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also flagged by the redirector heuristic, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=anna+karenina+english+book+pdf
    • http://zagax.kcmcounseling.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871390/326548.pdf
    • http://files.akyeraalexiphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164557/3ea82b9cea6368e.pdf
    • http://files.markwilsonmusic.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813988/9963133.pdf
    • http://files.ginapeakva.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379266/06d5b56058.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0716/5095/files/5305074249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3237/8517/files/types_of_communication_skills.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2215/4908/files/48460714665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5721/files/41251390611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2610/3971/files/61137557810.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5104/1447/files/61421570109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8340/6239/files/kebutuhan_dasar_manusia_maslow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8558/4801/files/autobiography_of_a_river_for_class_11.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1883/0492/files/guwedizepi.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_off0000d591.bin
a930fe078cd319eff16a652f293256c1e15f6f772cf05abe68d81a57ebb960e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD591 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e721.bin
8733e4fecd2c6ebb22ae6d855b26779e77abb772a5381877562342f2567506d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE721 10800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c2b.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C2B 4324 bytes