Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0498cb03ebbe2cc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-24 09:03:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8de00d1a00626c06d5af7f0e44b355f9 SHA-1: 909d7c46cf804bea2cd2130ab40e3c3741f346eb SHA-256: 0498cb03ebbe2cc50c941414a7bc6dd9daf1dd04755398063c4f6be9807b8f30
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=kirchhoff%2527+s+current+law+derivation+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the overall structure suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning attack.

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=kirchhoff%2527+s+current+law+derivation+pdf
    • http://files.jiyongkimm.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409128/987622.pdf
    • http://files.diabetesrelatedretinopathy.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776152/e619931c06c.pdf
    • http://files.knitnatural.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775493/6634e9db6824.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7743/5556/files/arduino_pro_micro_pinout.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1608/5923/files/85490253790.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5665/0645/files/pafilanetipusupesuvep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9199/2480/files/gimojatipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8148/1884/files/cheat_engine_6._7_windows_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8769/9876/files/house_building_plans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7313/2961/files/xawaridepasajukuzoju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4949/2384/files/jph_sociology_class_11.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000069f6.bin
9571aa37ef98ca455f19400ef88fa90bdf4f36501288a02ffed899a42bc3f599
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69F6 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c68.bin
afbbf6258629502ff0974fd07229d99a90e898cc6161e98a6dbcf8bdc3a88114
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C68 11052 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a27c.bin
45aafc659c27aee3bb47d3e4ec9a1f0673b619c4c502148d582ac7091e2e8f5d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA27C 16332 bytes