Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 603220e920b9597f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 18:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6c53ec3f4558a92b1d16a7335201b005 SHA-1: 28e725579a0869f9f44d5a380ef65218a135f9c7 SHA-256: 603220e920b9597fb1a6873808cd675cef8c327f8b97de1edf45ecaad435d2ee
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and numerous benign-looking shopify URLs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to disguise malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

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/pify?keyword=brodsky+utkin+pdf
    • http://files.stellasaintboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452735/9f4bcaadf9ba4.pdf
    • http://files.5earts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739037/teputilib.pdf
    • http://files.terryvillefairhorseshow.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453221/lififojozabep.pdf
    • http://files.tankuanaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379612/eda4253071.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1792/0934/files/25980576257.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5040/1943/files/91084119978.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2326/0058/files/arches_national_park_trail_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37263727017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7678/0192/files/sikafuteg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5775/2733/files/atlas_d_arboriculture_fruitire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6853/8521/files/kinubadobesikajujexamivul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2515/4716/files/11016286343.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0262/5178/files/vesajodalanov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2328/6940/files/66136176393.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8535/7463/files/puladibajoxifenelojaxures.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_off00007185.bin
c95a757d81eff88a443f7b55b2124c41da58c43c74480360d8caaa8f8beccade
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7185 5008 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082b3.bin
0f850035bf36fd07a6feb8281e1931d5e8fef44fbf3f34eaca53b5318d9c2ed1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82B3 10244 bytes