Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c102b574d6557c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9e92b392d1f260fac68b076377a1f4d4 SHA-1: 6aa8775477b49ee82715da10a3271936ca5f92f3 SHA-256: 0c102b574d6557c12f9b85304ae1822ad7e27d7f7cd598886c6483c99bc711d6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one prominently pointing to a malicious redirector URL. This suggests an attempt to direct users to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous other links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a potential link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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.ru/wix?keyword=protocolo+de+servicio+al+cliente+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8008/0801/files/spelling_rules_worksheets_ks2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1677/4054/files/68993838801.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1092/0345/files/47965960016.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a64c8c_2c87690f2dac4e06827e0c0d4a6ccdd7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/353d00_a1cc53377aa34859b0c1a56bf6d374f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d1f77c90893a4412aaa3473ad3b14f38.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b50c55_3614ff054cc74066a1eca74215eb3249.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8a5556bc64c6445db763bc5047ee6aeb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0baf77_3ece64a66f134bc09feeb7ddc1a21c16.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d54300_10fe53d8e12a4006b22d21454fa61d80.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_off00006a10.bin
f3cb1b532682f58a1d19da98a140b185e3b8f09f6e625d9df089d13ee6256948
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A10 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bdb.bin
0e42582403b043549fc42b320b0ab950264340c288d826a4219c80d15804994b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BDB 11324 bytes