Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6979cbdab4385300…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:01:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6fe0a27821e8bb5626a090c2d6903924 SHA-1: a0f20c444e304265961fb3a41a371e4968770fbc SHA-256: 6979cbdab4385300d3466bfe182c5a6a6aacdd81f84b5a9dd26a401620c913ad
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a URL associated with malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised as a PDF download. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest a lure for downloading other PDF files, likely to distribute malware. 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.cc/wix?keyword=byomkesh+bakshi+hindi+pdf+download
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bf0735_3247703528e44f5f880ec6e4be27ca7f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bfbe03bef4f94b789c901e4f3cd1ffa9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5d21d8e49165415cbea1705a388e3f00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bdeb4c_9c0aa43334d94222ba9e176290ac42cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a7dd1623cdc14e0389253627334ffbe6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_9de11be6d5a8440a9d496f4f842ccbb4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d43733_d849b3c5664a4ce5a09688bac5994a86.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_94f15a7589ab442185a06ff5ac978955.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/be19e1_47dd3b5d25cb461c8c714a737cd895f6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7753/2822/files/annual_trustee_payment_report_information_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9842/3967/files/hepatitis_b_vaccine_information_sheet_chinese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3482/1287/files/wikamiwiwalamumorukawazi.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000098f4.bin
b336ac22a92a902eef6b01294c74c347986678a3fb139ca8e6478aa8093cd6ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98F4 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ac15.bin
00cce91be9a7657bf6d53d64a71a518664712c3cc6997ab27f97237fb0c4cb06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC15 10504 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000d051.bin
e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD051 16164 bytes