Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 634df7bc2d8bce0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 09:48:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d2e4d7ed7cf3ed9e2bd345f07baae2b3 SHA-1: 438af890f48fd661460da5522ede2739d16dfceb SHA-256: 634df7bc2d8bce0de7279fdd95ed8724d849d5cf653bc5cb3677da8276dffd0e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with the primary heuristic identifying it as a link farm pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting the intent is to lure users to malicious content.

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=pencil+value+scale+worksheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0dcf4b_b6c2d6c4ed7242f5852aba652dafa1f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a5ec27176e5d4162ade2ca807066d017.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99ab475b41a142b8b91bf48faf579473.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_202350c6c4b54632af88f8da9d74f51a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_87f33e0bafed4d5fab536b8245b00c96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dc1abbd80ee14658a750bf16668a3a80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/067ecb_44f262635d09491395736bbb18318316.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b874d_c4dec0bcdf794d20aab084d2a242b397.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6df952_beed2c77df6e4d7cafb5a6ec5ce9de33.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_85c083b6b0854b4e8345a9ec73436407.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea5d7b_ff8a64d59af64743a3eea37f9e4e5096.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f523c3_8c13ad3919c54514a7269a26fae2b742.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_410ca76fbe624ee285b4f5e057af52cf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2b3f46_0828f964b30c4ac181d19bb9ab697904.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_off00006631.bin
e9a565205508126681a8e964a2f327332ac1dffbc22f6503dcfbf529c38e4233
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6631 5104 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007793.bin
0e0c855cfce9ecbae1d2fc4811bfb45cd6c9f813b2cbb586ab47f4fc75b78513
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7793 10428 bytes