Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6abc8393a7cc20fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-09-07 16:15:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c4bb28be114512d300677db4bae78d32 SHA-1: d7762a9433f16dbf119399738f7e0a18d1d99634 SHA-256: 6abc8393a7cc20fca68ff5a584d766c667be4ab592fbddef82a9b061938bc6c4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links, with one prominent URL identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a "sideboard guide". The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to benign content, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious redirector. 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.me/wix?keyword=standard+izzet+phoenix+sideboard+guide
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_2f6c226f0d7e41f18627a3e8b330112e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90c678_4f229079a7d84c3faf25f928cd5172aa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12f4eb_da1df472ef294e42bac024b325a0841a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f84671_30b44efb332f473c8b537ad4944e822c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1009/6284/files/fap_titans_cheat_engine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4456/9242/files/penozazewubulavodugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8049/9879/files/xusikoxut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6992/1688/files/cox_cable_remote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5959/9765/files/pneumonia_bacteriana_forma_de_contagio.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7823/8886/files/virose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7332/0613/files/business_plan_template_printable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/84149054863.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_off000064ee.bin
55cf351cbb9aaeb48fcd1d64a478c3c58e249b971a0a2cc363ead0fa873aef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64EE 5552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077cb.bin
7361ec58c8612533416510c3b0ba9ce0f135889b94f8f1b954846d80aed5de5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77CB 9816 bytes