Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bd85c15acbb7887…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 07:31:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a7455cb12b14cc8537cc9f751ef8e1f1 SHA-1: c9afe9d77e526e8c2de1635545067f00f6539d45 SHA-256: 5bd85c15acbb7887926126e4a325ff15c971c994159fcf70f6c79cd8907a3b86
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, disguised with a seemingly innocuous keyword. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. The primary IOC is the redirector URL used in the lure.

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.club/wix?keyword=monopoly+instructions+uk+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cb4a18_42eac5473640484cb0115c6aa14ef7a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_de68c7e3bc5c479d8cc6db44438480d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2dba0c823b7a41fc9f1d03463ff52488.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4c1554_176b2d4d97f543879a103ef5370280c8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c0e9fdcae2349c7a7723f529029c282.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5bf50ae1afd24b6fb38718fd7279e402.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f726de9f536747beb94008c7e6e6d8bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1d5a2dd33e8f4870ade6ce14afcca3b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f46b5_0519191e9ea047c7a44e06329a56ad90.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0166/5960/files/download_acrobat_reader_to_edit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3355/files/78818754530.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6848/9881/files/46957937413.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_off00006425.bin
6f1012bc00238c3c92301149237a1f4ac06e6762a880b34f1d3051ddfad3c89b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6425 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075a6.bin
f2b3e6d8144b7701d09034ed07f3d03f18246862a43046d771541bd73b8885a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75A6 12012 bytes