Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0705f8fe9a9b0353…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 864029be74a58e3d0d860895e8e7806e SHA-1: c16c0bd28ded5c102b89f2f3836100cf548c36d6 SHA-256: 0705f8fe9a9b03539a700160e22cd1785d9c3fa1cb9b51b799a5c177b7366697
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'white christmas sheet music', suggesting a lure. The presence of multiple external PDF links further indicates a link farm or redirection strategy.

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=white+christmas+sheet+music+irving+b
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/784815_b4820ad8a7e745e08bcbd08f907a44bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4435acaf8f07454098913d9b1539bec5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/405339_0fe3b8154b0c46b48e4b6b6339f60baf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7499261b048c48148410d7ed21b63506.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76156b_bff4656895124ed4b84e8ca899e1075d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9fb24b56143f48fe9235d6d03ba7d6b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_2a767b883a6e4338aef6c7225afee3cd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad22e395b6d34194bcdaf4fa36e1432c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c0d43d1519814115b32301c81109aad9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_8128c87e47354dc482a625ce158d8c10.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e95.bin
8e7afef0c8d3be29fd76e03747a7c601fb6f30a633502e02b956e59024f10a92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E95 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000700b.bin
711fe09129c4cd89aa8919d92dbc88c8b6f31ee3251dab44889cc88dd1a6f759
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x700B 16336 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a36d.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA36D 4324 bytes