Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a6e9d0ab669bb55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-09-05 17:42:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 01868bc31c5522f36fb329603716cf77 SHA-1: d3d906e34251e6da547b1b987e985d3d06931d12 SHA-256: 0a6e9d0ab669bb55b79b158b41a4679ce2bd810426e5ee9a93e6a283245ed759
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure related to 'Avengers annihilation trailer'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=avengers+annihilation+trailer
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5399/8487/files/angularjs_templateurl_404_not_found.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4062/8136/files/ee_keeper_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5016/2583/files/xupusoxoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2649/7182/files/51251728794.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7381/4182/files/57845340486.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6172/9685/files/canada_food_guide_daily_protein.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1585/files/vobawulunul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/6059/3567/files/bsc_zoology_question_paper_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3171/4202/files/gethibernatetemplate._find_query_example.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b9801a_185772e4b283438ca265ddd57f55a682.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7a13df_9f49d9d68bc0430988ece39b55844a2b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb6451e830434a869b0256e0a060551a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cfe37_275957d6fbd44930a4fef69a1e353a5c.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_off00006b0d.bin
fd92d0e18bea07a7023e93da4c4133dced26f022f20fbc182c05ddb64116a68e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B0D 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c11.bin
f3c8416afeb499d774a9c33d23003aead6f6e9ed6e7be00fdaf7622e4ffa2267
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C11 10304 bytes