Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10cb62ba66516723…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-26 00:32:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: afa0916f20ee96c486e0af701fc7cec1 SHA-1: 7df7008f79c57998da216b09439ae93bb868a5cd SHA-256: 10cb62ba66516723e3900649609278a34a49cd70868165bd66a70a67fb09eab8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, which is indicative of a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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/pify?keyword=balancement+thoraco-+abdominal
    • http://files.vohrart.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741385/8226421.pdf
    • http://files.anneduffforeducation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738568/471ef410.pdf
    • http://pupatokuw.dearborncountyhs.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776330/7836475.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2659/1389/files/android_stock_phone_app_replacement.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0143/0695/files/yearly_calendar_2020_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2818/5239/files/maresobimukaferemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1502/0448/files/zojuxexuxilabowume.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9582/5320/files/employee_recognition_award_letter_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/7808/1701/files/42627374715.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2449/6286/files/barycentre_de_deux_points_pondrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5279/2982/files/mugiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5076/1377/files/napukewutenexalege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7723/8945/files/56069658422.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_off000055b1.bin
2760c65b7c660c2ad33fe50fd47eca662508b96fa5066fb7a95b765551d6ea07
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55B1 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000673d.bin
b3c4e1f4d097d4b513b5dde620d4a89822e5f92b9498352eae1368b0f9a48068
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x673D 14316 bytes