Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 197046ec1283a6d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-09-01 00:20:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5e9737718a694d03ec8e02a4da0a9982 SHA-1: 343fbe80cd92fb8e3ae129f0594e3a71c34426eb SHA-256: 197046ec1283a6d016546f0eb4db7299849f83dd66e250ba7e42976c9ce43b90
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a significant portion of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious 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.link/wix?keyword=anne+frank%2527+s+diary+1999+movie
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10e3af_0cd835201aec453089fdc80252716721.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/136d07_4c6737fd270d44e8b080b980bce171ee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fb5067_4ab0cedd3cfe469cb54f8ce1c87d1929.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ea91e_e06850d2f1d84f94b7c709e49c7b203b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89363e_034e84cc469149648fed2883c6f493a8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73c254_b69ab21490884bb591a6558cfe68c5b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_50c2136ffa7a4ac988b5cd84905a140d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c608b_238f380e6ee9420b943976624aed020c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a44510_f658d57d190549cabb71c35b2b298f9f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e6092c_fa850a8219f649eaa3d52e06003b208f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7041e4_8e6f97e81ad349cb85eb4b32764f44da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c9480f7a8b664adbb95a5b2b15bbd69b.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_off00006648.bin
8cdba97e8ee6aa713950a342691f5be7c6217ead8f6dcd0bd9ebe358e039f9bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6648 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078f1.bin
3e3ec5d94272ba4905b5ec72771c5f888f59857ed3369201707c8a7991948294
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78F1 13312 bytes