Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73efa2a5ac7440f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:08:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 44a3416f1b5a98ae13c3f26639a7f8c6 SHA-1: c1503f646e33d2c1907b20fccb83dfe4b66b2bdc SHA-256: 73efa2a5ac7440f50f0908aff47ca9fdb60a0301d1a71df1babbd577ae090ca5
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious links indicates a likely attempt to redirect users to harmful sites.

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=cooperstown+ohio+baseball
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/48d9a1_c3724dd3b12644bd92cc6ab7ad9961c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b97a0e3b72dc47ab8d3b8cce4610559d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_2f97ad0e090a477d912ffd8d7b0d003f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8de238_4e6453e03f0348d996c2f183297ebed0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7104/4770/files/92831793708.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_04575e3c877248a19f699182ba6cc4b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ce165cd67ae64a659f15c55cebf987d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3f66f03741b147d385a27749e24f2d19.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ea8bb_5572c32f812c41e2ab04e0ab568053ff.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5402/9207/files/64186572862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2956/1495/files/54705032907.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_off000081d7.bin
e5a2a5b5d1d4a726c60399185946de00512258088e294688fda173a0cc006cb0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81D7 5044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000092f9.bin
355e2ceb3a2d81fcfc82783d80164bc44a3476d1074ebb6c88e6277ac2e31619
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92F9 10580 bytes