Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0aeb9b3f949a8cf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:53:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: be3b4105673b014c7e4240cd0cb73843 SHA-1: 756bb486b0c44403f49d2a2677b8dd76bbb27067 SHA-256: 0aeb9b3f949a8cf474ecb0298c87640b568287b82f0e02e552cae2c3e99a4f0f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external PDF links. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

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=hi+rice+sd+102
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5cf23b_9139215e008e447780dac242ae7da6e0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce14f3_2878399adcfb4d9c8360795242871396.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a18aa6_756e4baeee7d477f81b073f4d22ddacf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f17c6554e1ce4a27b2ea7a8688aa29ca.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4355/2416/files/a_poder_em_suas_palavras.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cec570_42c8ad5017ed4249bf38b058748f5ede.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/599f1c_ff741384bedd4977b47d2ca87e310237.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a91264_6ecd0797b8de4f31bdcfef4d44a629fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8d82c79d688e4fb28c8073b1860b3c42.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74e905_931cb25fbe6647d19401a4608f066efe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f4de5e_ec90bed07af64481b0ed145cff4d7f07.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7198c1_a533d6b5d7024070813b02e3a6914cbc.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_off00004dbb.bin
0f71f3cbd44dc7fb8c9f204005a81b778444cff32e982b443d323e69e70cb4fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DBB 4976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005eb3.bin
b51fa93c019d4d88d259edcf9e03279ef0bcf66f0323828bb25232fbe21250c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EB3 11048 bytes