Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f6c2b5a0569eb7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-09-04 17:22:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d72d67aafc13403902afb8b0091f2c3d SHA-1: 4dcd73d1dbb6f024f4836cfa91bacdd6f726df9e SHA-256: 5f6c2b5a0569eb7a0909d5f17d3518b63f9c30e292edbc1ad763e5473d2eabd8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that mirrors the malicious redirector's target. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to benign content, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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.club/wix?keyword=njdot+complete+streets+guide
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/370ea2_ca2e86bc79b84d77a7947735dc1d2c07.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0dd040_4512944ebe554bc89debfaf58729aa71.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/008e52_6267922f656841f6bd726a04c291250b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e481ce_8bb282e596534480b438e6d37d656485.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9d7ad9_2c568404efad404aad6431ff39b16bcf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6782/4533/files/lanamoputup.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_4bf29cca50d74e4584e90ca78c9711d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6f6068acbefa42d9a9039bad35eae4bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7306e_ca4e87af0f43471a9736fddb6b99b1bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/027f51_f6351668d8724de88aa9cff54802ae59.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_e5446a556f744bf7a6db658dc47bda4c.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_off00005edf.bin
341551385e5b9c5ab3a53d4e99350618fd477e0d066ecb785972802d48563fe6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EDF 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000709b.bin
74647627c1145b0eb7a9985ddf7f1578cdb6d764149032d31fb9466d995d4fbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x709B 9724 bytes