Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6412fc7b4ef95a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 02:39:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d9edaca51178e29159b94e8ca58141ec SHA-1: ac42ec2276a86f5a8c92a105a74018ab70ce8d96 SHA-256: f6412fc7b4ef95a844d32ae0cebe6ed8b9f98723a2f606dddfd20ce25a513f02
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'genetically modified food essay pdf' and includes the malicious redirector URL. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt designed to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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=genetically+modified+food+essay+pdf
    • http://lidir.electronictaxcenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/96aca.pdf
    • http://files.unionheightselementary-carthagetn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409135/raxamowonuxem_munimo_buzofirel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2552/8989/files/2100752623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8040/8474/files/encyclopedia_judaica_vol_20.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3791/7345/files/noledopatevoraraju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3182/5317/files/princpios_da_administrao_pblica_concurso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7941/7504/files/84375482424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3333/7768/files/advanced_ms_excel_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3767/0041/files/90227977431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3420/4568/files/fikojimawatonejed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9719/2603/files/destination_b1_answers_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2998/5430/files/75136754844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1026/9085/files/nubamubigejuzukirobogife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8317/7887/files/32646137345.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5369/4626/files/78027012768.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9944/5664/files/asu_service_stripes.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000629f.bin
1587762f5656df859f134b91d8f422fb7ff0233b203629c629d1acf3720d8e21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x629F 5336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074cd.bin
4e88c1e996bd50e9098d3d3f4dec89cf62b7d7a11b48a0351f811460311a5188
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74CD 9844 bytes