Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6941826c74084b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 13:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2697b2ea2050e64cf4a0eefd52345fb7 SHA-1: b6f4113eeb8255b8ebc07fb6aadcd40523417aa5 SHA-256: f6941826c74084b35c6904a4f95eb1d4be15e76c136fc5a1ff8316a7093a1bc8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a link to debate topics. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure includes a mass external link farm, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a further stage of the attack.

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=debate+topics+for+university+students+pdf
    • http://files.socialplannerevents.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606291/38a1c479bf5e.pdf
    • http://files.erskinebadmintonclub.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740511/ralibikik_polof_telubevizabop_borumisofekutav.pdf
    • http://likutuxo.5-s-poodles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438474/84bc00.pdf
    • http://luvufubi.islandchamber.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776542/101a4fd6bcdf.pdf
    • http://zitid.michaljwedding.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740387/rafuvegoso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0734/files/82788873977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/50036278562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/4989/8399/files/biological_science_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3258/4098/files/korirafododovidadewoxuxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7701/8524/files/vikaduxojuwebuvixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1643/8438/files/7843388394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6805/4940/files/bilukuregimumikonoloj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0403/0120/files/92212441618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4257/8332/files/substitution_and_elimination_method.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3421/2509/files/cds_eligibility.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_off000065d6.bin
a24f9ec6f51400d66bb9136ea55b7d0d55ba80dc8f20c4d4c76f2842652b8263
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65D6 5420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007857.bin
d2f7d532d7676956c4c78c9db73cca37d45b771a7ce76877dc5b38aab1c5cd9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7857 10040 bytes