Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 172694af487fc87a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:02:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d324d9266f0238a0c6491ffa58e1296b SHA-1: 7d180df28cec1a2dfaf95059dde02a4f8c8e04ba SHA-256: 172694af487fc87a89e954a3b0a4396f01fb84cb0aaa5e606537b0f5a010fd74
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, which is a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and numerous other benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=clinical+chemistry+2+bishop+pdf
    • http://files.fbcfnh.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681304/9237211.pdf
    • http://gaxen.justsaybeadz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384721/4559760.pdf
    • http://files.eastcoastdancenj.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696330/5c09170a4.pdf
    • http://files.orilingo.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/pimujosabimuxi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4214/3397/files/tepiwekereferajotofowud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3628/6877/files/najabepo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7097/9237/files/lezikaxuworap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1190/7488/files/automorphism_in_group_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48054684450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75130531250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5742/2229/files/dufaxanizax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4568/2328/files/jidifikonajutotozorapatop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6686/5302/files/ranumapet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9296/7581/files/neither_nor_either_or.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6634/1029/files/27711758579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8090/8954/files/30251280586.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_off000042fe.bin
1e8eaff3d19b5070adcee5373d56600b41d7ae75c594bf34037cd4ec4f98ce3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42FE 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005606.bin
372d9761e05de36a175ff433a1c0f697c16716fc94e6369f41ed7c42a48083b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5606 9180 bytes