Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e3711c48396674c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-09-07 08:50:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9db0f81815f23a3f4dd88b3a8f16f83f SHA-1: 7cc562187c890888d5f2ca126108a395f1943773 SHA-256: 6e3711c48396674cf80aab3048a42682f8c0b932c313caa4598fd02d46bf0206
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised with a lure for free invitation templates. This redirector likely leads to a malicious payload or phishing page. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malware. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=free+invitation+templates+for+80th+birthday
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cb927_fe94f2fe7e744ac48dfee268e279d134.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea2f88_5d0a99e6ab6143b4933fed0c03944b48.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/704566_e4f95625df394fdc86feb50b095fd1bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b42fd6_d832ca7a91ce41a8a281d930f638cc00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ced5d_ff190980e7e643b9ad808cc359a07bb3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6079/7333/files/wofawaxumodoluwura.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4aae87_5cdc02553a324626bc2485e2043eb493.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defdb4_255a4e2fdbac46318f8ee13613f3ca99.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/856cea_0590a842d5ec4219a9c96db4c53ad66f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90c678_6b28eef71ff04022a0787d85e2340f37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b444d4_6b9ca24c1e844ec88523cc0c135fd415.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/35dc59_17f8f4b6446c445797b53485b67cc8fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d162e3_0df4b880f8844527b82c8a06aacb7d4c.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_off00006034.bin
59d58ba50740fca4a58980f43bba5b29c8adb5d24858f97b06adefb98f9f6d13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6034 5876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000740c.bin
a7fd6025ec541e2408ff8cbf720704f75247addddfd1038bb6f06489846be434
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x740C 10368 bytes