Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c76d7890aec3143…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 84cc6e62a2ba39943db6f01861739027 SHA-1: b74008db49a56eb12ee8493824f25ef47a7ac7ec SHA-256: 0c76d7890aec3143de14cdc49648e2350eb25d31d5af8adf81d06bc18e3ac57a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link disguised as a software download, which redirects to a malicious URL. This is a common social engineering tactic to trick users into visiting malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to host a large number of external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations.

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.me/wix?keyword=bluestack+2016+free
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defdb4_78d6934382c7443a893401d2fe7733ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf14a4_02169202289c49478e7c0cd42e42b0a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_436d222b5ad2406e8b732ce8670b9841.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cc572_a53f8385ee8b47c2b20e03ae57200c2e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d574a1fad25840d6a443539307cf5dd8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8c2aca_811a13b58435413ebc581856f5b2bdb6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/105a8c_75c0f4c487444f1fbb9f8e1c7c71f820.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1bb2aa7339834f3a8358bd9568f5b3e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a5ec27176e5d4162ade2ca807066d017.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7c3584_93ccc287cec7439895511be4855c5d08.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/laxefasigapabaxirasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0008/4126/files/50021484114.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6797/2513/files/60659462675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5331/7272/files/business_communication_essentials_5th_edition_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4910/6080/files/suladekivejeb.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_off00007039.bin
721b76d7e11691cc28e563f02cbdccb146059322da1dc9952f18ec09b6623683
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7039 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082e2.bin
fa69970fc80e76054e491fa02242ab21da6e3a77fdb2172c3df20a0ed72de308
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82E2 10096 bytes