Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69048b8ca53f5835…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:43:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aea2dac1ba4403383a016326b3516523 SHA-1: 77c7e3a173f0e3d10f59ed928f6dfff06596dcfc SHA-256: 69048b8ca53f5835817885812733c1c43eaf13a313560c6e32e429c664e312f2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a malicious redirector, disguised with content related to 'Masked Singer'. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded link farm likely serves to distribute the malicious redirector URL across multiple benign-looking PDFs. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the 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.cc/pify?keyword=masked+singer+monster+performance+episode+6
    • http://files.slievenamonnurseries.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739398/9a0f0b0a043fc90.pdf
    • http://files.decadescoffee.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680796/turuvired.pdf
    • http://files.dare-h2020.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453527/jelezofevujan.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0732/6882/files/gerolegudedotunene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7356/7894/files/html_link_to_page.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9755/5108/files/ubuntu_editing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9445/0078/files/30508883868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8379/1526/files/pisujaxedivawofotogov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/72107376243.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9173/8277/files/nujoledizimum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/mepepuwiraxulemogag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7386/3842/files/cucurbitaceae_family_plants.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2766/8890/files/names_of_allah_and_their_benefits.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_off00007389.bin
76c58c8e4bc363c310b9336ca483e64d3fcbd40060f0e0a668ab63c79e88b490
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7389 5664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086c6.bin
323661a32fe3ea2082de28ea7e42dba66d82ed788b616ea61aac917ce6dd007a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86C6 10724 bytes