Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fd1550826bed109…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-09-01 01:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5137d606f84234b5ff49295749d93c01 SHA-1: d29f9ea1d778c8596aa2b9ea9a9f32bd3f4fcb2f SHA-256: 0fd1550826bed109be84694e89d1c3f83cc1321f3024babfd408ac4a910e8deb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to a music video and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious intent to distribute harmful content.

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/wix?keyword=young+thug+check+music+video
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2467/0105/files/42810571441.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4293/9814/files/law_cet_2019_application_form_date.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4746/0768/files/64100403799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2080/4511/files/talibefikupisajov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1022/0447/files/58701925167.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74e9cf_9a48a88533254af28bff9071a14f5498.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83f04e_19c6b8aa60804613aa550ee0585e0027.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_250efd67a331445ab6d6eff729935873.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4826f5_ee877c7b3f8f4b9f9960659ca37d4bc1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b5da7_4034489fb93b42f88d16814a39d18df8.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000041f6.bin
bdf6df170073225fa1447e7cdfca4df3cf602a8dc1ceb2955f3637312cc97e77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x41F6 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005340.bin
fd535b1f205aba13f4a9f66848201489df1cb3b9072635546deaf9ca85c643a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5340 9528 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007425.bin
dabf0ccc451caf4864c9b22ca91318a92e8f625b469dd0561edf59b451c7a792
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7425 18776 bytes