Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 656322263a2ab20b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:30:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dfd957a23b02aa3bfe3af34b8e118331 SHA-1: cc9017df8383c815521277a135d66e01dab5e3b2 SHA-256: 656322263a2ab20b66afea78cc73497afab8fc2c5654cab48d76ac82dae1018f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to a 'training need assessment questionnaire' and includes the malicious URL. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/wix?keyword=training+need+assessment+questionnai
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f5b72_840b8bcb74874257918572262b1b7ec4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_854918bcaa874794a41c5464437d85b1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_910e7a75e1584e87aaf707987ae68d13.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc03df_0cfdec6e35fc4fe2904eb7eb3dc402c2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9596/4314/files/itunes_free_apple.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5592/1817/files/86808456923.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9273/8201/files/mivipatuvogixamap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8339/9321/files/ziguse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1750/0834/files/heartbeat_bts_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2dc492b0b03549709b0c968f3d0f165c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f46427_c61bb0b7f8954491b3412a52fd5296a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_85a02cd4e13f44c7a75ca7189ebe6650.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/432b07_08827989907c4d038e5c772f32896390.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0aab01_9f65fec5544f40488ee0750c1ceca3b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_432745f95ac24963b8b81e483e7117ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b6b5c9e69a094842918f2183ba34707f.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_off000071ad.bin
05bbed0713ba265a3f86e162de3df52ca58b32c80fa6abcb6a596451ee1aad96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71AD 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008331.bin
9e2015747381fc406a5b7ea9cf491660bdb53da92e31ff1be58a0900481321ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8331 9932 bytes