Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6307ccac91f7dbb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5a4e00fcc20f6aab4c64333afecf69f7 SHA-1: 32cb90dd5804157dd7425549a0f3d024d1c04546 SHA-256: 6307ccac91f7dbb53ab929b4eace8857cdb293c988428f3e90a7a794d80cb276
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document's primary function appears to be directing users to external resources, potentially for further exploitation or to host a large collection of other documents.

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=artisan+roaster+scope
    • http://files.jrpnyc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695372/8401951.pdf
    • http://files.jlinco.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710603/1655468.pdf
    • http://files.thegratefuldude.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776295/wevojiv.pdf
    • http://files.holisticanimalstudies.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453329/gevexini.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/90224189776.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7896/6691/files/8307528565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0380/5847/files/92486155178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1162/1543/files/88485242226.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1778/9863/files/93117925468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1909/0595/files/understanding_vietnam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3235/8560/files/let_learn_english_book_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9229/5332/files/tagaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/10340059549.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1103/0690/files/present_simple_present_continuous_exercises_test.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_off000060dd.bin
8c71cb337460a180808c0cc33da7fccd9c6b351efe73cd8e27bb4a7e2e63d733
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60DD 4884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007183.bin
d90e17f556ed14f7b2e788da79c04fcef39de16a5bc052a324c9a0b0f73e2aa9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7183 10024 bytes