Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f9b67207ba9e77d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 08:39:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7fdc002a9acd95a7eee94920e1b262b4 SHA-1: 46390b28b873b2249065748b611161af426c99da SHA-256: 7f9b67207ba9e77dd70d550f306cb45a515e4a6e5191b4fa1f77f41caa7998a6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious domain, disguised as interview questions. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive document.

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/wix?keyword=c+developer+interview+questions+and+answers+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55cc32_ad76c970f6d243d2a686b09e9a408adb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_579fa92b99f745c89c092c3889c5fa8c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ff9b8_a0bbe595f6f24d16975891195d81de51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e91a634fb4d42afa64c2b9967012a9c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a0016_804cd727736e4ee69d5146c29f9cc151.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b65acf_8b5e7e2ce13745cba176f51d917685b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce0e6d_b0b6bb6910cf426e992dbb6d4a707d0e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0705a1967a814bac8f7f89490c9883d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d78f471f79da4167b0a7e9953e87252a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_c90e1c48866c40c188200ed0153fd4e1.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_off00006d50.bin
b141409009720bd1b5a5ae5339569795ab3c5d44ac53bc71837d78d984133429
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D50 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f38.bin
f811314c180d30b36046ac78574130e08b49b4bac4a96177f079ec24cad87aa3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F38 10108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a1d0.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1D0 4324 bytes