Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60bb9f6a34e766c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 15:35:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d35c78f264e7f082150d610d74e01544 SHA-1: c6023d47217b5e012aed2a9337df6cdccc37c1fd SHA-256: 60bb9f6a34e766c553de44662124125f927a664e3d0afe7b9c481b45131d3e9a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is an 'assurance engagement pdf' and includes the malicious URL. This indicates a phishing attempt to redirect 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=assurance+engagement+pdf
    • http://files.asacottrelldar.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398066/29d3d713096556f.pdf
    • http://files.mildlyadventurous.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775171/8081846.pdf
    • http://files.gileadtimber.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437806/7131442.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4229/0336/files/68850897868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wopeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46946939033.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8042/4351/files/busch_gardens_tampa_map_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3319/6706/files/kukozemuxadojejurokipoma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58143530911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4397/0463/files/49262298245.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0530/3205/files/69247544180.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7431/3621/files/kifulajujiromet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5348/2138/files/kebixesexonebesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/kozizegitizowa.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_off00005d18.bin
1b48b6594f6efb3d4a2a667a5922fd71a550edba8681b23142680c6382751879
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D18 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f7f.bin
030064c0dd65173c4faed48b8b4fd08f049819a7bcbdda68711d87766fa80cc2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F7F 10180 bytes