Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c61edbdad31bc496…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.7 KB Created: 2020-11-08 21:00:35 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fdca43f2d09a87c281869d104334bee9 SHA-1: 1b90a6df8b237a7d6f8d9ce80f0e5ba7d23ca3f0 SHA-256: c61edbdad31bc496dcfc10f226d27549311328052da17ccb9deb3026b5464067
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to benign-looking PDF files hosted on WordPress.com, but one primary URL, 'https://trafffi.ru/123?keyword=metals+nonmetals+and+metalloids+worksheet+pdf', is flagged as suspicious. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external links, suggesting a tactic to manipulate search engine results or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://trafffi.ru/123?keyword=metals+nonmetals+and+metalloids+worksheet+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://vuxuwavu.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/76309888565.pdf
    • https://vumakatove.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/dragon_naturallyspeaking_12_serial_number.pdf
    • https://devotiguvo.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/boatman_capital_report_babcock.pdf
    • https://gijalexipo.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/the_wanderer_alain_fournier.pdf
    • https://vadazigifexe.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/gopiv.pdf
    • https://xobonub.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/tejubimowenifow.pdf
    • https://dedisix.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/heladera_whirlpool_no_frost_448_manual.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/numegubowalonan/68567167441.pdf
    • https://sisiviweze.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/50939477702.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06a6cde7-ab96-46f1-b594-af799ba9c880/61086179461.pdf
    • https://dilopipo.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/demetivudaxakoleze.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/betefowubevat/manual_n_commercial_load_calculation.pdf
    • https://juzonibi.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/hartalega_sdn_bhd_annual_report.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4cc2bf61-2bee-4604-a0ff-379e4e7c703c/genawako.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_off00004604.bin
086bbff23b60e088ca46873acf6503a3c259f018b3584a10aaec734fcd613fa7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4604 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005873.bin
880545573977a126a7d21390e1bb238e5fdfa66497fa9035c45d2c5df5d000cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5873 9860 bytes