Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 195dc56f3dd2918c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 10:54:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 393da2101027cb475caf4b94294ed78e SHA-1: 73d314944eb1e1a9fbe2bace1253330fed3ed69d SHA-256: 195dc56f3dd2918ceaa3c73e6a89dbf373f1856f1c43e01efc5bf0311633a547
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'Laurell k hamilton anita blake quotes'. The presence of multiple external PDF links, many benign, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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.com/wix?keyword=laurell+k+hamilton+anita+blake+quotes
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c159f4d8ca4240e18999fa4ac7f3c1ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dacb405f5c0948269e918c9157dbddd1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c8cc8_2a30f6ff16224e55a3c81ea37afd7fc8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_782299235530450c9058303eeaf824af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_14f4ee95e29d48a189c700ca8dbd2401.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d9d1f5_e031a6366e3248c880ff65fbf8bebb09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/913720_efdf0eca5ac34ab191a108497eddaf35.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_33906e7b17164d1da9613f6d42afb0ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/66c878_998138b599c140a6b4061d9395efaa0a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05900a_8fb4a79e140e42b2bcd83247aac43bf2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e43635ec5705449cb025bf6588570ddf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_68d2c8855b2a4a2b8bc2f4f02c9fc655.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/362633_548ebfd4068349139b39a9e7d02bd3e3.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_off00006dbd.bin
d77ada25cd0ba31d0a4d4386ed5113a32f03d36e61b789fe0cec94a06d66f490
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DBD 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f3f.bin
fc106905af1e4de5175dde8caaff74c3f18bfff7e16e8a4c9a0218d7a14e3ee6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F3F 10464 bytes