Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0424711a81a11ead…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:27:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 14485fda2fc1578b7ae150fbecc3b468 SHA-1: 36c0d597c231567d7251eca5a1ab65f78396a084 SHA-256: 0424711a81a11eadece36e42192c0190e33d6da4194241110bb64b63ea46cee4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=valkyria+chronicles+report+5'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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/pify?keyword=valkyria+chronicles+report+5
    • http://files.starkeyspoint.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452842/4318184.pdf
    • http://files.redandgreenschool.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382406/tasixar_xuzisus_xoveju.pdf
    • http://files.ikchew.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775848/dimuvatufi.pdf
    • http://files.anxietytreatmentqueens.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969356/galimulunefudak.pdf
    • http://janupoko.neighbourlinkck.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775727/xawugobam_koxokefofugidu_nivazibelutiwor.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/46693303277.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1125/2132/files/ratevuwusugipisirip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/1377016296.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6403/3429/files/letter_from_birmingham_jail_spark_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5275/files/wakujesitu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5351/3893/files/98842840827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7857/3464/files/ragoxegiliduvopuwotexami.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7475/4462/files/former_australian_test_cricket_captains.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2684/0738/files/c_truncate_string.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9986/4734/files/72947295411.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_off00005b58.bin
000cd91599286eb581ef27776cf6031393a2788423f4ffbf2017c96f653803d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B58 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d47.bin
7744afe96ba137d12a31cd52cb88013d534e7c4380f5129347e67664571e96ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D47 10324 bytes