Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 740d79402dfe9a88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 03:05:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1faf44b1f83f7d25100daec74d8393dd SHA-1: 55faecd88b70993f4bfc3c9db157b684b9abfb86 SHA-256: 740d79402dfe9a88501fb10b4489c0877b61554f356d411a7bff472ae32aea17
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is likely intended to lure the user into clicking on it, potentially leading to further malicious content or downloads.

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/wix?keyword=men%2527+s+physique+training+program+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bca44_595d354f602447d09c15f04dac0df8e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e4f7ac90e6dd4d6b9195487a5d661922.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5be868_18b4a3c23185410d9ba004c2adc4854d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/78c764_439c7372f2a34ea39ad69289db5be624.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5b6756c8665f43999b1f49f72218db5a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_423207164244401794b466760c6e51b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76de1a_1b7958006bbd4ec993ddbcf03318aa02.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8573/9670/files/nazawutuwagufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5463/6966/files/skyrim_sanguine_s_debauchery_mod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6893/2767/files/34924780224.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c4177_5f3ab4edd90041c6a612543716b3e8dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/822ecd_ffb4bc6a205a4af394715ab84b37180c.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_off00006ff5.bin
7fa06a8026f425b7dc9848231b0ac417bfb48d1c7cb1b6605ff0ab899b36a39f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF5 5692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008337.bin
4364ab7c45e93c023c79926a02a1aca836326cbf55a2e37b702c94b42ad6b67f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8337 10352 bytes