Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c3206a24965a573…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 18:51:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1354e84220e16c37253171aa139f804f SHA-1: 3d43346d0391bf1b5bab17e43b8a67fa864b3efd SHA-256: 0c3206a24965a57317e699c5f6e6bdba2eca40fe059a982afb92cefd6a2d9805
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. One of the primary links points to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, but the presence of the URL suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, content.

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=piccolo+saxo+et+compagnie+cycle+2
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_976822f605494c2280f25cbafcfbd61d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b77b08_56afe24d4cf0455b903a679ac0cb695a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f1c22cce53d44ffab0fb13b1d5cecbab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7fc9513cd8a3429c960734aaf5d32b0b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c98bc_7c939d10ed354151a65df0c1e411fcf8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1099/5862/files/new_ringtone_2016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1465/8980/files/mecanica_de_suelos_ingenieria_civil.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_558be57c9b444ec29405b26a0a826d00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b7d8a_f28b6a6981c54bfc94502d1f84a6335a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0131/5491/files/zemagoduxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8374/2873/files/html_to_java_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1767/4656/files/best_free_guitar_vst.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2402/9608/files/encyklika_caritas_in_veritate.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_off000063e4.bin
dd021e54f442a06b25e7778fc468bb1d5ce0c2016d1f897af44d428de9b4c48b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E4 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007676.bin
abb4b04837dd1a75f7a9caa720f3c10989a9b252d19fee4eed7cc4b0e92e1286
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7676 12020 bytes