Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1653d0546652e3d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

321.4 KB Created: 2020-08-26 18:05:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 967638e8fabafb54ba037998a1f00fdf SHA-1: 6d7aa6e6d02f8e0b2ef152b28efa5a70d4bc726d SHA-256: 1653d0546652e3d3ccbdba058cb16634cbd3892e675247eb903f416d0ad03060
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded URL that redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to reference the 'Call of Cthulhu player's handbook' as a lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the presence of a malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=call+of+cthulhu+player%252527+s+handbook
    • http://files.mhcchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070520/buwotabiwazi-migewusurolex-lodiwafusugakod-mifegejobino.pdf
    • http://files.chicagoforchicagoans.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/tebixiganafo.pdf
    • http://files.doublempartners.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874162/xexojelotejizelavodo.pdf
    • http://fifino.drvegetableinc.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302868/85ad8af17809.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6335/3244/files/rigimebapimupepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2728/1558/files/allen_bradley_contactors_catalog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6676/0095/files/11162627173.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0352/5794/files/aldehyde_ketone_and_carboxylic_acid_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1795/3702/files/rugetagunafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1713/4499/files/38242492275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6179/6248/files/fuxavivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1334/0312/files/19181140131.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4061/2262/files/dubuvibolaremebojofafi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8309/4434/files/bevufuzoroloxilefopogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kemulubu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5048/3368/files/31115988828.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_off0004bcae.bin
b8f03fcb06711a6a949858a505c8c8a13df862f57b222e914b475936ade7875b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BCAE 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0004cf59.bin
cbc002c046051cd35019a25250c3adf7d43d7f1318c8da71ca0e48d452bf350a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CF59 11860 bytes