Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0274423270b3da65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 01:06:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0649a63f48e3d126635ce24ee977cbfb SHA-1: e798c64857845a12830ec6981d78cd462ad1f56e SHA-256: 0274423270b3da65466b4109a5f90fc5009327cdb7225cc7353014e8bcc44046
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or scams. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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=immersive+college+of+winterhold
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_912569e4c4bb43e8b098a71aeca5d8d9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f7a6cfca65204dce83d680068a15a65a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7833f64966f34f469fad80d53459a300.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/accd1f_3298d6efb4db41c594e3ddb298864413.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ad2ade_f0590490fdd04d2798a2ea9712bd8f50.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/81156368485.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4196/3679/files/zineravadut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8271/9127/files/rawopexar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/6437/3927/files/project_plan_milestones_and_deliverables_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2388/2650/files/95877145668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3093/6733/files/86409625035.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_off000077e7.bin
02f3773b2b527dde15f617034464a78ff1924ebd29f636db5edd13e2d2739bec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77E7 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000089de.bin
67bfd4ca624dc1422a350ce6cdd1b81a724f052e809f74a7273f733f3c9297f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89DE 10540 bytes