Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0267d04feb84ba1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:52:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6f8ac7f46900677c0431403c319f71cd SHA-1: 5c5456f1e52d7d511649ca1797b0c3595ccf9ae4 SHA-256: 0267d04feb84ba1a5e489ea66248cb6a26485f43e1a0fa4910b95ccdc3a6f6fe
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates this redirector is associated with malicious activity. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic further suggests the document is part of a larger scheme to generate traffic through numerous external PDF links. The presence of these links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites.

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.cc/wix?keyword=usmc+maternity+uniforms
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80bfa9_c6bce1214e804fc8b17318e77adc56f5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f7815_10c756628db24f3c95076615f949a21b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c7a857dc0c504b479524203800e8996a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da74cf5d45ab41b8ba8732aa2e56ac45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_514fcb85c753499db8ea586f9985d5a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e643da_0795a5828a164b8298b2b722c90bd8e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e4eb4_e5a51b835a8c46aeb3925c7bf02e7b5f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2c2bc_da57a6109fe240f886983f82a46272a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/217d68_277e64a180ee4f16bc3d7f6225003810.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_f93852d0b7764cdf87f96452fe219de5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d9d1f5_81cad675b6ea4e14921b74b8023e2e30.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fc8001a335954c0597ff760a643b0b0d.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_off00005277.bin
11d962f53187abc0ced7e66f729ecbe3f7d307ec7da40348a242a89a3b5fd6ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5277 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063ab.bin
0364b27c0af8b82127a99bddaa2d08a17f7d0005b18bc482053622e1609ed93a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63AB 9892 bytes