Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8502f20b37c6d753…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:22:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1c6b00aea4819d9b53416304b5517a4b SHA-1: 84bb1f8e1cd1f3f5221a2dcd2926fbcedecf63ad SHA-256: 8502f20b37c6d75346396c85a5b9f130711bbfacd1e1cb9435df424b5c7f7d4f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to lead the user to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a Fender Mustang amp manual and a URL, reinforcing the lure tactic.

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/wb?keyword=fender%20mustang%20amp%201%20manual
    • http://files.stephenedwardmazujian.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813906/giwadub_sukujakelog.pdf
    • http://files.nltbiblecollege.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452735/vexobetat_fejuviv.pdf
    • http://files.drfelixroom26.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453543/minubu.pdf
    • http://files.superiorusa.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871850/92a06.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7170/8065/files/goxuwugipemekepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3305/0779/files/58684952866.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1401/0518/files/how_to_softmod_xbox_360.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/909040323.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/tevafetujewonavatunegom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5376/9126/files/nunamozivotikoxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8072/0294/files/nomibenunasuxonikejez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7631/2471/files/91963591082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8102/3132/files/tujizosumadupoduteguvop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/24375498268.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2574/4547/files/53831465797.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_off00004385.bin
2b7ce9fb9e7e157fa004bfc681caf7d9c0d06fac1dfbe3ab87f7714a46c05f61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4385 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000556b.bin
5b762246b7a1b4e527c69c2d44af80bd90e1a4740f53cde33a655224ef9eae85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x556B 9924 bytes