Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e405e4b2e786539…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 23:42:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 581c74897566a3531b35d74ff0f1296f SHA-1: ceb6d5894fe366179366538cecc37d5f3fbdd94c SHA-256: 6e405e4b2e7865392c3aa4e3b858e70cda23c3d8a1ad76f48c2dcd06986704df
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to suspicious Shopify domains, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text related to PDF downloads and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure to download malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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/pify?keyword=ccdp+arch+300+320+pdf+download
    • http://makute.geraldsandau-sculpture.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775320/4144324.pdf
    • http://files.ammarshammaaobgyn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438419/165970.pdf
    • http://files.ballmania.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398547/ebcb475a94b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1055/5041/files/rasisuzafizatuwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4990/9415/files/5146396246.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4419/8805/files/8564230810.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0685/9176/files/76019813304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9408/8611/files/binadixutawilenigufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0766/2504/files/rupajugojifakikigizo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2033/6802/files/lasibape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/1505/8086/files/what_is_an_example_of_a_subtitle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6514/files/64936276906.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1995/2540/files/litcharts_the_great_gatsby.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_off00005c87.bin
15f3369b8e407e04e4043e9a8877a630eb8dad256d25427cc2100516b327afc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C87 5500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f4e.bin
a8d1ba07af79575a2d9fc2e2b7ca2566035111f3484249e1f683f9e5dbd2b2d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F4E 10032 bytes