Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6038c78bf5681e0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.7 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:39:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e0e348bb4343c358cc047f9428da11a SHA-1: 0cdc0c420eeb4edc8e2139e55e31274aa82f22dd SHA-256: 6038c78bf5681e0eecaba824948649c2a3c578f3d78c2829c1cb4b18678da6f8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a game and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of embedded URLs and the redirector link suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure.

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=railroad+tycoon+deluxe+game
    • http://fadid.shaltmira.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682093/4830711.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6881/7562/files/christian_brothers_mp4_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9727/6064/files/takimagebizefamerosuneza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8178/5753/files/dufarusaledun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6680/9765/files/dog_barking_sound_effect.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4146/5244/files/9671648778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/nupizizudifunakiliji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/5676577217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9269/5456/files/android_studio_preferences_option.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7522/1144/files/python_hangman_game.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5083/5876/files/xosenolevajoseluwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7086/2998/files/chocolatey_package_builder.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_off0000868a.bin
8d51114237dfb43518173dff5d81952c22521ec060fb9fb214dd6c373be1c5af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x868A 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000985e.bin
ca0238dcd826d63a16768b2e40cddcdfd643613e2646e0921402912b41bad46b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x985E 14748 bytes