Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 271d068af34ecdcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-09-06 19:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 194e27336597351239c89e41217cdc6b SHA-1: 600e1c2e54bd21570b853968272e96de90fe1ab0 SHA-256: 271d068af34ecdcc05e3622eb8425dd210ceaf73055c09a8255a91a7fdf371e6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link disguised as a wallpaper download that redirects to malicious infrastructure. This is further supported by heuristics indicating a malicious redirector and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish users. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.link/pify?keyword=samsung+galaxy+note+10+live+wallpaper In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1974/7996/files/intel_b360_chipset_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9492/4694/files/43108756556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9007/4005/files/appsc_calendar_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9178/8706/files/art_birthday_party_invitation_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4389/8019/files/85133716842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3817/8471/files/rumerezoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2175/2731/files/95866748422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5742/2229/files/reraferalotodunofidisaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7939/1646/files/limupubibitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3532/0735/files/favoredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4100/5480/files/gapowunuvuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008f8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F8A 5756 bytes
SHA-256: 2acee549cafb06100f2d9cd29bb9d4e790a5434981b5a7e933f2f0f4385ee6cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000a32d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA32D 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 36240b2eaf0068c9625299542af5d7469a3660b5d54d05384a00105aa3fcb4e4