Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5caad944d0b28077…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 12:19:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d991b1cdeb7996f76911b369cb4d1b8c SHA-1: 3bddd823c8f1a9a8d5f0cf26d02adcadd624ae1b SHA-256: 5caad944d0b28077bd8a2b94548285b38d81a3b0096fcf70f9be4b75f073cb7b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on external services, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the heuristic findings.

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=apa+bibliography+format+multiple+authors
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_136a7fb3610b45b89b3d2de77bad39f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3c460_d7b7356e54d54b11a3b3949782f23cdf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9dda13_dde87fd497e4425e8fbbbd3ef24b3524.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cec570_5d7a68f9bd9e40878ff5d1942de6336d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a43ec6_bfb2f6d8492c44c088c15c21695446b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ceb2e8_8ab7c0577ca148ab864ddec5ce33bb0d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5737/9488/files/gifixumulelifefetideji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5961/8716/files/63623734121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/application_form_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6163/1389/files/78009385654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9569/4239/files/assassin_s_creed_trainer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2793/1029/files/what_is_ontology_in_qualitative_research.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/lightning_rod_stardew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1917/9944/files/27854200061.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6878/3766/files/48719157924.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0172/4577/files/66077329624.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_off0000605d.bin
7b2b320634f5eb5afe27c0a2d92afd22a6b36edb7ffedfb61d3a2e2e70891b34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x605D 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007317.bin
10d850cd405511874b79037d727bd909199352e287129e559442a5b97a85a70e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7317 9720 bytes