Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72653dbf8d8ee7a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 08:10:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7633a51c6dd367e09f80d7a39e9e4c4 SHA-1: a068803ab7c404c12bc44475948f941d176d31e6 SHA-256: 72653dbf8d8ee7a9bf1881a02c3b49e83b95c311e9d4e2b89e9bc8bc62d651f9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a primary URL that redirects to malicious infrastructure, disguised with a celebrity name to entice clicks. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to host numerous external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further 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=kim+kardashian+book+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9f0762c458cd4268a4fb6e90216b3018.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b47cb_817f2517817249a2aa37fa07f648948c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bae363_3db168a32b8e491b8757348006784ccf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a274c7be6de0496aac62e064195b64de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6cbaf4432a3240aebeb8cc751c0e4c84.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac72e0_b199764448134557a3906f6094fd01b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34ec99_087eda7e3da4462aaae5d99edf8726a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_03e43f3c253b4dedb96b00dbd9981e3e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_4c4e7f9bedfa4fdda402cc556ff29d88.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cbdbb6_b5c722bd52084678a740b12a6bf24216.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b98abb_945ba475fb7b4debabcc9fcd20dd4251.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59eba415dd24402eadfa50bc7d0585f8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_9a96e019a8764c1281265cf6c2d15c8f.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_off00005fd0.bin
9833ff330c2d675f485f1b9415c1a9f65b823d293f12d0a15da45bdcd6d97bc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD0 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007209.bin
3c8cb3f428b519963c8633a5a9f5a608433a75eb5760e4ac9f3a94b9930f43f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7209 10568 bytes