Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 619bdd8fd0ed3bf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:58:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b759a43ed90a3a8d81c4b89eb4b3363b SHA-1: fbbeb7744bb4bf91a3581dca5369a7f71464ed1b SHA-256: 619bdd8fd0ed3bf0eab58f8ebb558030dd5627c7d082508ceacdbe22bb211143
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a tactic to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=rothaermel+strategic+management+concepts
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/599026_699eb0afc58e4f6fbfb1838f5e116b95.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/96768c_f5e33c13bf3b4062be1fe3f7e01cdeda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_80c09b72ba0a440abe4c978e1794a1c5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_34b50b827e3f437b9d9bbf6ab7b54bb4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_794924bd2501441fa6219088ae1e30bc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_aeddb19347b04e68bcea4855b5baf55f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae059d_78260bb8426041acb27ca5f77566d438.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5438e3_6d30b1f7c38747668236127910fbc7d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_019bf0379c7b4e1faca1db5e2cfd3c5d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f5b72_6962c42796a74205a62c39797304679f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a64c8c_aa0afd512ca647e0a0c26d99f40d8d62.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000491e.bin
5b4e7e45fb98bf8400f27c1c7f394af9bb35823b452eb91e65df3a05a08cea80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x491E 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a70.bin
0b86e4f5b1738dc23bd3a36c2f561c19d863012bc6819956edff951b38863609
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A70 9816 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007c1a.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C1A 4324 bytes