Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cb9a31a3ba55913…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 20:02:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0063fedc93c7372498c78955f4f708e7 SHA-1: 1921efeb9a18e8d2b90c495c81d9f4711dbf0ece SHA-256: 6cb9a31a3ba55913570dde103ca4eec47905925f5ce5c6df32034e4aee9d2095
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is likely intended to trick the user into clicking it. The presence of numerous external links also suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt.

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=artificial+intelligence+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/217d68_a7b7575711e645d9a85b4d44c622b12d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e32c2_b90495c8ee02400ab1aae755a685a831.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0fdb6d_04323705549d4650b5419aa46c86d59f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7727/0692/files/junepedefijabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5857/7056/files/7835417588.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5377/files/17853143276.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4341/3407/files/14762445579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7663/3247/files/calendar_2020_with_holidays.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9098/3574/files/96217164560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7983/5547/files/wememuluzujumodunexij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6294/3127/files/44325038675.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2c2ee0dedd6a448a91324ba382142939.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d55797_4f1796997a374e97a7a9beab939cdedc.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_off0000781a.bin
e1bb0f39e730e1e710a4b73144f3d269cadad389e5b9b961512404675c9476d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x781A 5136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000089a1.bin
b53acc162f5c5f2ad4b5f740a20fb0930c3def0aec77dc76d1f531cdac60163a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89A1 10668 bytes