Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 150ec3ba193a82e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:19:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a934e7952f5032ca45b02a2043f4d39f SHA-1: e623b679278ff66fc295bfe8ac6f9a67f395e673 SHA-256: 150ec3ba193a82e94dd9077cb85c7712d69915cdc5bdca1addeb7d7569ba1ac8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a printer manual, suggesting a lure. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, flagged as a PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicating a potential attempt to manipulate search results or distribute further malicious 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.cc/wix?keyword=hp+deskjet+3521+manual
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f71dee7c754c49a1b475d2b705e2bff9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e643da_813adeadba7b498497637740863e4865.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73c254_d7558bcf74cf4ee0a03e1340416aa46f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3f0e57_05fcae02466b4b8eb2a86ff889aca36e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/136d07_a6205b807cbf4f14a28ec058868abfa2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b2c09_7b9e289297d8403f92ba491e7d1087b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b444d4_d00eacbd56f84c74b4f0046c24570710.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de02f3_219cfb385fa74c04b51a3040d23fadcf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3f88d_ce73dba0ad3f4d4e995060d0f6759b62.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1c05f_45b6b87480bb4f6ca9b9645df1c6e4fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c8d66_568fab222d574f379fc7905fa548a3dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_f3ffae3517084192ab0b6f28b6e53cd2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1bb815f7052643ddb9520f07d89f548e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e23fbb_c31932f53eaa4efab158e74acb37cbd5.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_off00005556.bin
482747c67b22eb074cdd7398069b15199d3f544a34b2ca39a9f87f6923c2b77a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5556 5584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006852.bin
b603bdb3566e62b1d7ffcf492eafb1c1cde39b76497bd91bc94c334a8e4f09c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6852 10284 bytes