Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d9b3fd77b9a8f77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:11:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cd1335e9528249226395391e87140b94 SHA-1: 93fc369f81e94c5db7dba357bec9c8981c6a3b26 SHA-256: 6d9b3fd77b9a8f77c1a0245e22dd3e23479c54bc824e9278f421008d0c439408
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector and another for a PDF link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Brainstorming cards pdf' and the authoring application, suggesting a lure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content.

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/pify?keyword=brainstorming+cards+pdf
    • http://files.campbellsbayvermont.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383204/luwasonoseranonoju.pdf
    • http://files.audiostak.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070572/30655356c9.pdf
    • http://files.bethchrismanmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070846/1c1999ad37.pdf
    • http://files.lapasd.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681916/3090628.pdf
    • http://files.markst-photography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438759/d43e9ffd17f21.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2160/6817/files/vowibovifotonaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6230/5702/files/14472860131.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6261/files/word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/acog_guidelines_preeclampsia_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4711/6197/files/79450092309.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9806/2501/files/carrom_rules_in_sinhala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6259/9584/files/duwusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9578/5629/files/jawami.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1560/1304/files/27511751745.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8580/0358/files/gta_5_mods_xbox_one.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2451/5229/files/99934244720.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_off00007cf3.bin
7cbca17ed22ec418326a5277b8262098d40b2fcd16f5c854a013e45668c4643f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CF3 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f90.bin
af62825e77cb6e8577ff93cf60480a18aa67c4957cdb2e92bbc92325358db230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F90 10356 bytes