Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6656e17b7656c7d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-09-05 18:22:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 32688a5ee8ec3bc5c44f194b46a19b5e SHA-1: 628608b932009a1783896807b409d57238c1d2b2 SHA-256: 6656e17b7656c7d7a6c8607aacf966132fa5579529b53d68ba8c00bc7f03bd92
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or malicious content distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and references to external PDFs, reinforcing the link farm and redirection attack pattern.

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.me/wix?keyword=augsburger+puppenkiste+lieder
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8702/7605/files/78668928978.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/3521/3206/files/wawivewo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5657/9228/files/zezoxekagubuk.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6e3131_245f3cf0716b45c5b6acca3bfb68cb77.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c0a468_9f0f929e3754409e9c0f059e33d6f682.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0819/5751/files/79999678122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1574/9281/files/atrahasis_book.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a0016_b5fe3b39fdde4fb18312ba995e336fa5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f14cf6_64f9d1350792416c8b065b633ed77e59.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab059d_19e5d6e1d35c4ac6be01fa41eed868c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/70094d_20f1f8c0c2fc43e3be1a972440d4e3e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d99ef3_702587f510d54edb84410f52d8d7deab.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_off00005079.bin
edf66bcd9b77fae329c3666afa14a3be8288f3a39c2c3c3389abd5f1c5381e5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5079 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000061ec.bin
03708ea22512b18f5a6dcd895dad8dbc74e383f539f1b7402082541721fb6255
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61EC 16140 bytes