Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60cc8fae038279ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 11:12:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c103f71a1716275ae0983ff01edaa8bb SHA-1: d59a2e8771deb4f77e05fbdc0c044a15a170b3d6 SHA-256: 60cc8fae038279ed203aadbd798eb80abde8384e2243405950a1d6ab96a1c375
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=dota+2+invoker+chinese+responses'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting a lure to external malicious content. The presence of numerous PDF links, many pointing to user-uploaded content, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the malicious destination.

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=dota+2+invoker+chinese+responses
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b291d8e5287540a7a20338fd5a39b0c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bbb42eef0c7743daa41a1dd219d3782d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_ab0305a95d584638acb42a475fba2e48.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ae8175f7d8343578c7e89f811b1cad2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9fc0f95631f744759b2ac730f477f9fc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_598d6818cebb42b9a47e2967aa1b1525.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e14ca_06d2fb8b8f104b518f21e450ad8212e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_bdfbdd1571524a5187b90abddb80d43b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_febab50c6f23440a9e4b288008cef4ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/19103d_85fe105813e34f5b92cb51f86d4e7292.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a932183e82f7499681b2072342856939.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_89ab9f1b353847e9954e4b18f6ed32d9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cd645dfcb9004143a539970338609758.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d162e3_c6e1d76767464211813e6461b5f57633.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_d6d94dde1a074ab1b93b3442acd16f1e.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_off000072f6.bin
98d88288db44d2c102f03e27b7a2058c8aa1f1fe5dfae00a7617e134ec441587
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72F6 5244 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084ce.bin
2fa118710f52f2e6f9a43b8a17dcd2a812a07f0e326ee893ed036806badc5aa6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84CE 10540 bytes