Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6abc9a0249a62014…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-09-01 15:39:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d5054bf4ee9b962f1799af8a0937755b SHA-1: 578ab69f403b49b886eb6b20f427be8cb556e057 SHA-256: 6abc9a0249a62014c938a95559dad20a01716c7c03d4b0c9c2e10307d5e0ff76
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links and text that direct users to a malicious redirector URL, disguised as a tax worksheet. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure is consistent with SEO link farm abuse. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive document.

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.ru/wix?keyword=qualified+dividends+tax+rate+2017+worksheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5820/8672/files/jumusuwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6762/2055/files/54742157917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8626/3960/files/49720350289.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16f9b168beec40f4aba744411290e806.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/70c1f8_e195aaf6e86c41c384dceb16b1bbeb2e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/314c35_d743936856014b598d595331ac294ca4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/808d8c_8a620e6a37654f088012ee08f4ce4899.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83b1b3_d106ce9c4ca64e65a8b24330087eac82.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/25618010541.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2204/6616/files/coliformes_totaux_et_fcaux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2473/6678/files/astronomie_gratuit.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dfb5f8_cd146dc65cb64cfc930bdb6e0fbf4fed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b80a51276c4640d8b781c73719c34f29.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/23e9be_48e90d5afd99475d969b2c327e02adf8.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000074ed.bin
56d8b0a51103e328f01f6e2cdd30fd1e8233b5a4bbcc76a8049c6fdaac39d60b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74ED 3272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008090.bin
665afed06b4bdaa9de29a0a83ff9eae52a37a078e79701a1e1264cbec832c752
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8090 5744 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009443.bin
6b143b9a7bfc90c4f1f90939d84cfc1470d4781c284d1e5e444c5cd53fa70da4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9443 10748 bytes