Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fd12f2ea5812ec1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 10:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 17f43c179075a006d230d9aeecdc6293 SHA-1: cbd7c4d416e95e36ec341270a1eaa28a205b17cc SHA-256: 0fd12f2ea5812ec1c9ca9aa53f4d1a1bb5a0acf026ace57801d8935168ae9387
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for anime content, likely to entice users to click the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm heuristic further supports a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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=clannad+anime+episode+1+english+sub
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f63f29_f1f088e39608489aa4526f2f9c6ec8d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5e7c9c0c6b8a4e9dac1d6d36128f7545.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_3d858d1f65834f398d8eafc45fae0c62.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b89691c8310846be9834a7ea135f739c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7306e_d06ece3a5b764c5c9b9ae1999801e271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9964/4314/files/11239673777.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/19103d_ef57a030d40645b992122a59f72f9d99.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7603ae_3ed10718c76041ff9cb59432c2c1f2ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d55797_cde59fdb18474fc1b2b5c7ea71c9c032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8056/4392/files/senilokerixilinumibonojem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9280/3744/files/90370092587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1817/0018/files/auto_vs_manual_transmission.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2861/9168/files/84486294179.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9054/2741/files/kevetixegowojew.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_off00004148.bin
0354ade0c60bdc42d59f7df50374891fa7dd8c47cb634ec7b3de12eaf28136a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4148 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005361.bin
fdce6dbb29aa76e5a7b8b90f06f47269321218b6f0feb16e073f148cdeb63d3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5361 10280 bytes