Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 078ea8383d60ff82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2020-11-01 12:03:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cbbbddf1f69600665dbfe9080075e35c SHA-1: 117d1b84a09fe80897dfdeccd5c2000235834b46 SHA-256: 078ea8383d60ff8251c5fefaa97503ab4af7471e68163e657d035f1c238b7597
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL, 'https://cctraff.ru/123?keyword=a+practical+guide+to+sysml+pdf', is confirmed as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting its primary purpose is to lure the user to this malicious site. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious URL in a PDF is a strong indicator of a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/123?keyword=a+practical+guide+to+sysml+pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4401505/normal_5f9bde300837a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365601/normal_5f8706941ccce.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379839/normal_5f929f5470a36.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376878/normal_5f932c9f7bf0a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4402533/normal_5f9d1375c1a70.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424662/normal_5f9d93469646d.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380082/normal_5f8d9ef0a441e.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8611/9079/files/play_store_download_free_android_games.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0502/2836/3464/files/love_shayari_hindi_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5440/7578/files/nabevojepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0503/9380/9046/files/ledixipafoxewaludut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0507/8725/4466/files/el_escritorio_de_windows_partes.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tugumeb/all_about_me_questions_for_middle_school_students.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vonusirukete/7132101298.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0505/4136/3397/files/number_the_stars_chapter_8_questions_and_answers.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_off000123a0.bin
624db95e2b6756a11daf41214900c08620eff82359071c5c4fdf6c845ed89193
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A0 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001367e.bin
8157649881a21dbcd1365b9502e30e389d8e0fd854518a42e4e33c3ed2cb105c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1367E 11356 bytes