Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ddbfe2368790ee5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e612d277aea2dc28a0f68ab133b1d8f SHA-1: 0ed53cf0e267a7bcea97e09f07e5b51e1341abe7 SHA-256: 0ddbfe2368790ee5c6d367c6792b16df223108075f2b0be34a4a8d07db7bb742
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=varnhold%2527s+lot+walkthrough, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a game walkthrough and the authoring application, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector or to appear as a legitimate content aggregator. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=varnhold%2527s+lot+walkthrough
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/173616_3bd14b8cbb294d76b820baee37fc1e38.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a18aa6_a5afe10be5e34d42a517e63d77d312ba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f80ec_f5cfd45aab5b42fd82dc4e357a62d600.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5899d5_56d3037f0b2041dd9c50ff5eec182197.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_704e379a2a26416eabe240f17ddfaf37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12f4eb_80d427f11fc74b02a761a7dad1ca4422.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7346/1669/files/57584983360.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0569/7438/files/71900152363.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7a738565c1c94c32b843e4d9c72a536d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef4d5570666d472f95499c01eed5264e.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_off00005271.bin
af6f9be6ea0db45b623580d3bc50041eaca1e5161a118be3df53ae30dd34ca86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5271 5244 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006453.bin
ab0cccf897bae04814fc98e0bb4c9c487410caa3cd225d3106b287daf90370d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6453 9828 bytes