Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a2de5afeeb1a163…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-09-09 01:39:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a105b6e4d3688cb050e71060d00b4b74 SHA-1: 5e8fbad82d85504195c95b8104f1d672c68eea4f SHA-256: 6a2de5afeeb1a163fd00081716de92038b18f5d7535ed93cee368671c167d491
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL for this redirector, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=layout+templates+for+asp.+net+mvc
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89064d_0d0cde4065c04f0a9c018eecd58a9307.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9f6a24_5720310c222e4ba3bdd5c40915e4da62.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/85c99c_3fa64071711f4269877fb595dd6a1260.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b88e3d_17e0406d44cf462887eeee6b64ec0ecf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4bb894_5fa2fd267c8c4afa818b8fd59165070c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ac1ab_a770e0c81ea6451783da4d744d172661.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7039/7352/files/96120991646.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9394/1671/files/after_effects_intro_templates_shareae.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3349/3658/files/zomonokemotumixobixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6939/0500/files/61453772562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8187/5104/files/71313001291.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_off000060a9.bin
84f8aceee5d8a50219f353583f5bccada1562f9535d6a586bff089a77aa21ced
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60A9 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072af.bin
eb000abd8c7822e27c033c0627e7ac679fe17d8b1a2170767bbf66227822fd88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72AF 15388 bytes