Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bacd73f3f707dac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 13:59:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e5acf683f2f4b9a6e055193551276d01 SHA-1: d15b0fd8dd4f8003878eb2400a4026383d5df094 SHA-256: 6bacd73f3f707dacb18b19cd880ffb2e0bc6aa28e785a012c15ea66a9c49994f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to 'sample letter to parents about report cards' and embeds a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links, including a redirector, suggests a link farm or phishing attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=sample+letter+to+parents+about+report+cards
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a86d68_5225744c600d44bf8033f4adf95f915b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ad03d_cc92899e9fb3419c96ccf13e31d787ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de02f3_f04433dd04a2427685a098e2ff34d055.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f8cd5ee44960487a982fb377bac65caf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/735424_31d3a2a2f129474d997eb2a0045487f9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0575/0946/files/alliance_laundry_systems_dryer_manuals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xibirinadinabamagumib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1137/5267/files/13725559638.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8544/7833/files/61291597072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0130/6526/files/kojovitilizugoxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4357/0343/files/767200208.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8245/7000/files/85239606457.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_off000057aa.bin
2f7a041f2b59822335966245a4e9e5d4e428377e1ab983ec947e88da788e4558
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57AA 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a14.bin
a007f553eb64022fd06fd0f51906c982be416afffb02fbc5e1a16e9a67a91b7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A14 10172 bytes