Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7572ef35f5e66fa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:50:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9a16a53e8f5ac4dd9c3ec36ef2a4a2dc SHA-1: 9b7c58e052770f0f707abdcfbf794615499d16f8 SHA-256: 7572ef35f5e66fa2f35c49482d39ea2da50d08a04cc3d70f3ebe61fca3298481
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links and a document body that attempts to disguise itself as an experiment report. The primary link directs to a known malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion of a malicious intent.

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/pify?keyword=bench+top+cooling+tower+experiment+report
    • http://vumedova.peer-cell.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380771/8703936.pdf
    • http://files.aboutandforsustainability.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695741/5540388.pdf
    • http://files.maximebc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856877/geniluw-bosesexusamavi-vinuzubili-tobil.pdf
    • http://relevezi.ranchocommunity.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606349/abebbe3.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6413/9669/files/zulagi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5297/1685/files/lab_report_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1588/9305/files/92579141318.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2973/2248/files/utc_04_00.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5704/files/xawigujewumaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4866/9079/files/58926306497.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2879/0946/files/murofelevikedarupe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8935/4149/files/warexapirudeziseraj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0723/8567/files/20819972376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9408/8616/files/kaligrafi_99_asmaul_husna_beserta_artinya.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_off0000628d.bin
72451693f9dafca504d7417dd6d08d0d8a1a374a4fb8515ac227602125aa2dc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x628D 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000740b.bin
36167c464d7aec28a33dec8a1572f6e59ff5f68f406a688a2c9eccec40d0a14a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x740B 10052 bytes