Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 679f7781095c1eb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 03:26:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a7ea1a7e6c909267e36970372ea4f21e SHA-1: fcc0a41adbb64772d8de7df3ff06b34abf662ce3 SHA-256: 679f7781095c1eb331b61e8af0b5fbcd1e8d7abb727fe46fd260881fb12f3034
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector and others to a large collection of PDFs. This suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. 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.com/wix?keyword=form+of+r%2526+b+music
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_5f4d27f1e99a4513a7092793a9289478.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e53d4_cd1bd3f3fd8a44eeb864f5aaf9393b56.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f46427_b1ef1b55cf504a7c80bf3db66f5d5e70.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1615c_7610fa7b9a5a469a9bd1aab3f713d57d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7a9a48cdaf0d4a12b9854da07d65e756.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b49c6_f16cc07fb7dd45b1afca261403c8138d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5af86b_e6047b23abb743a3ae696c60ad5113d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a18aa6_ddb37f795e1342d7a9ff2c47e2582a3f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b916f4_9adfe6ce4573485ab38d125b5e25821b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_794720be077449388cd86d87b8f395c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_df087bd10e5f419e8aa4f439edae7421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1357/0709/files/5108626571.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1624/9767/files/valativazobekaw.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_off00006652.bin
629eaebb3cae8418897975160ac561028d5f0a11714b08d7e8f0422849530e93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6652 4448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007563.bin
f47a3d995b0ff92d4af471eba579086e2d97d6b4f1ffefd4b4425901d8072f64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7563 12652 bytes