Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60443880b5aed2c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-08-13 17:03:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d304ba9c5f4b146fb43ea8a28c2af86c SHA-1: 659d5a6b9a51b62c015180693a1af8f9929a84fc SHA-256: 60443880b5aed2c6dcec5543a1f0ec580d5fde88d1e62080fe0bbfe3fbb9e3ae
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract users searching for specific content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this PDF is designed for malicious redirection.

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/wb?keyword=la%20justiciere%20tome%201%20pdf
    • http://files.nsbonline.shop/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738562/f474dfb8f0.pdf
    • http://files.sanmateolimos.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383553/612544a.pdf
    • http://files.allthingswalking.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453114/545897b78bb.pdf
    • http://files.mandarinworld.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856574/4699230.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9073/8328/files/64614411919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4313/5393/files/definicion_tecnologias_emergentes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9424/5525/files/valse_d_amelie_piano_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8714/2819/files/8532452744.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1442/2677/files/32966009597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/soreroziputijitek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0834/9592/files/61534626231.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5575/2103/files/13713917223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5628/3296/files/fakukawemagigajog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6743/1329/files/ssa-_561-_u2_fillable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2737/2964/files/how_to_install_i3_gaps.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_off000051da.bin
4134e35af1c185949964c6ee8c9558fa73b6e90079e0990b1d35e3642d10b9a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51DA 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063f1.bin
379952c4a55edb407ccba296a9d66974e4def6781ff2581ea09887f6218faa59
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63F1 12384 bytes