Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 635cbc98aca8606e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:00:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5a7d0f834468275cfd91c3ca1461dcfa SHA-1: 0ef3736f6ad99556b718021f6a17eb54ae1062fc SHA-256: 635cbc98aca8606e911bfb9c676b4e1af6af28374eb513561252a593cc24c047
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=code+vba+pour+imprimer+une+feuille+excel+en+pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links. The presence of many external PDF links also indicates a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute 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.ru/wix?keyword=code+vba+pour+imprimer+une+feuille+excel+en+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77941b_20218e45ec004af49ca01199877cbb29.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4cb3ad1242f04be28a2eabfdc0afa6fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b6e37bd912d649e3a84a25b516bfb2cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_86e99511f69c406393a8b64b56dfe739.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e4eb4_a6fbee91620948849402c7c12f82df80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4bb894_a892e808f8df496399f900f75ac61985.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c6c1_f51b3829cd2e4999a9aad05323f18646.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6540/1495/files/video_player_for_windows_xp.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5523/2677/files/39840062711.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b40.bin
82413d422365dc4e209dfd8533c77d1036907a4440419119f8c1b9d5ff5390f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B40 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d3b.bin
ab78ef13b7c8f07c433b32b03d23070a7240dcaa5cd2994ce0b157cfddbbb903
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D3B 17284 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b0bd.bin
6c7705833fc3965cf0662333d51f993da4a743600ebe3aa3d6a9f423e004df0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0BD 16148 bytes