Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 037ad6c3ee9a7aa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:19:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6ba2737e2308532072c53bf040fad996 SHA-1: 6e7ad6e6e17bbad0e1b2286c6ad802f1c6e5d9ba SHA-256: 037ad6c3ee9a7aa4d1d656973525352da53ddc66e2922f3536f9cd2b02656921
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful sites. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary vector for malicious activity.

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=las+guerreras+maxwell
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3649d2_89dfbbedaf0d47fdad0e428548dbb45d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dc6dd03b97a1489d91a051f65fcee5ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_53ed3c5fc2ae476893ca132eca976b80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/930050_d476d2a29635473d93965202e7434697.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d00699e14d084271a2a4c8d3ad75c5f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0697826bc07b4bbaa386c49c0ddceb51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/48f461_58641bf890ca485aaac7495d8dfaa147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6410/5886/files/mowokitulon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6531/0373/files/pot_of_gold_plautus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6931/7020/files/2010193276.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4529/6027/files/fokudonor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3681/9104/files/46224541556.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8896/9882/files/bapumafagivi.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_off0000551d.bin
846b1fe917c44cc9a58aea4bf6b45196eb5a6286f5ab3ae0b6af96327e182115
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x551D 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006680.bin
c0c2c2af44d537860ac32955bcd07602ee253e236eb7db6a88d3468feb218189
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6680 11104 bytes