Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 836ab50a648aacdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 04:51:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7c8c64b49744ceb70101c724eaf7a0a3 SHA-1: d8d14943b8f376c35fe88449596d16504313ba4c SHA-256: 836ab50a648aacdb7ac94faf0c9402365bdcf9c32ec38fff13c9126de03cc942
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files, which is indicative of a link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=la+greve+des+sapins', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to URLs that are part of this link farm.

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.com/wix?keyword=la+greve+des+sapins
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5442/3464/files/2636622978.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9953/8087/files/dalikugixurubuzuganufini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5625/1559/files/w9_printable.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_de3c9db0f874497da0122ed0da29be62.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_068917eafbf94b3c9ea576201c468d35.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_580575a57c014bba9314d1ad3098713d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bf36f6b73d654dffb9ad9e1c2509dd58.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b163dd7a12994e479ffc31d4ffef78a0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1455d9b0fea344d49ed7ad619d0056bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aeebd7db88c8442e936308865a7e3e88.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_765281d8729b4e3083c224be80ecbd8c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_16aeaf268ff14bf79ec3240c051505be.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_off0000493f.bin
2c961f8544097a0d926053c83bf3f55e8912c98988c9e01138eb7f3ce361c88f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x493F 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005aaf.bin
a29a2fad2bc0e0b295cd65953ce70259705a7b4f41c318af8a67ec83631d546e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AAF 11164 bytes