Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 728245458803da76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 11:42:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c234363e1233c72c4a27eba907f4839 SHA-1: 92a0b6e8d75b9cfd7b66edda30e1dc99f1871d5a SHA-256: 728245458803da76b50e6fcc0c0ed9131b2e96fa1a0198a60fdccb6cc2978dc7
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 firing indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to "Christianity today magazine pdf" and includes the malicious URL. The presence of embedded links and the ML classifier's high confidence score support this assessment.

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.com/wb?keyword=christianity%20today%20magazine%20pdf
    • http://files.trainingbysuzy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857115/lovimadubugan.pdf
    • http://files.joshgibbs.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815054/zovuri.pdf
    • http://files.altacedar.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164118/gatujoj.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5287/6455/files/76342839913.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2894/5819/files/88569334549.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1962/2808/files/bawutomavobodizokuled.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/30460549563.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4161/2199/files/binaburoninexomiripewe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5195/8947/files/sven_coop_skins.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6913/6284/files/komunazudof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/2935/1835/files/opsc_aso_syllabus_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5036/0232/files/tanogofesesupetedil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7620/6238/files/kavidelifajaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jokopewizemaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/femepotufitaxaturu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0004/5465/files/lizisexowozi.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_off00006a2a.bin
25f1f56bd41ff5e1ecf4927db305289d4cdc50f61141515db91594d5ba98811f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A2A 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cb6.bin
10e1daa13c8acbe161216e0b6549985e2fadbe04848ffa5349aac1a4fe2a5cd7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB6 10220 bytes