Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 603ced75165cc308…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-09-01 22:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6c46cddd53173397e56bcee631bcf382 SHA-1: 889e4c67bf00f1a20374d8b592fd1f9aa551a5f2 SHA-256: 603ced75165cc30826f67e5548aa9b90d83c093588d730f607ab5a5a405e8e41
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a link farm infrastructure designed to redirect users to malicious content. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=evernote+scannable+pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=evernote+scannable+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d0191_895d0657f5804a03945454ce896b04d8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b4172_78abf41b6f274112b54681e2fb6895a7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c345b0_9b5c4111fee248d1b9ae3eb693f48cc4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1b8612_bc74e9f0c2644673b78b4e2f7501156e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3be3a7_81d26ccaa7974f16972dda843390a2ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/338562_a31d4141e8bc456ca0750a4d6776af55.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dccc252bc9b54ef0aefd27ea420dbcd8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_f2fbf9cd1273472690a14f14aa760e9a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c618e9_bba8a55b72e049eb950f5ffba0330fe5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2b25e8_fd46cb1f6a594474aec82af68fd56285.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7fdb069ff4f04dcbb37ab1446f3308e2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0512/3493/files/dosijokutunivaremode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8487/files/dirty_text_messages.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7362/5500/files/66622898045.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2276/8538/files/christianity_information_wikipedia.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_off00006a7b.bin
209b63c5a57203f29e81fe71554af3a4a377700f2f5b8f12305cab781d77fa2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A7B 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c9f.bin
018d705b5a30677f0131e27be57be9c80d2377c49fc1caafd760a08af905aa9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C9F 10292 bytes