Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8424e9481a037e3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-28 22:55:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 57f143bb5f791ac1bb2e544cf18f2e28 SHA-1: 3a8b5276f3219c780c3309aeac1bc6892dfcb07d SHA-256: 8424e9481a037e3c31a6f0ab65e1ed48417b22c96e192d0a73790021041c43e6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK'. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure to disguise the malicious redirection. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=jurassic+park+theme+music+mp3
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_51daf907da9847f090bb1f03e0535f51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_67660d60ef52465fa2f1dc49f206c923.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c4815c83b5ea43cca81076e6b930a981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2060/6885/files/jojegevetegebowedudan.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_88492bafbfee4ccebaf47e4fe01bd625.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9ff37e4a526f42fd805e670bfd6c74ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3743659eb6c8433fa757ec478e5318f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_11db2222ef77485abd0fab85b8fdd4a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_28659cd01f1f4b75b434e49e3ee1b8be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c73cfb7d4e44477f809a204966db6af4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_486f1f31eea14163a8fc8d6835a42799.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_off00004167.bin
cd129251a5d04d4a1658014eba518deb579b619255e3f8b742f7eb5ca2112292
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4167 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005378.bin
fc8f58261d6da26f356ee3048a1f9334c2782755c2506ded544964ca1d338cef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5378 14320 bytes