Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76cadc0ec9e972c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 08:25:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 78a3ae63f4cd8a258134cc9a671d0ae2 SHA-1: 70817bc7e6f76ad5882ffc7cdbf6b9311110af9c SHA-256: 76cadc0ec9e972c672ac2dcd2488782db455968e4a4468ce063e82c21da9416d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic, further supporting a malicious intent to redirect users.

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=bacterial+toxins+classification+pdf
    • http://vebelipu.performance-icehockey-english.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/molinoderipuwef.pdf
    • http://files.baybat-edtech.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740264/3cfb52c8.pdf
    • http://files.shannontovey.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814086/5ca718.pdf
    • http://files.kgarciaclassroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483138/kiwuba.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2381/0211/files/61265022685.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3137/8590/files/55314676061.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5956/9055/files/sorumapifasomagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3749/1357/files/3638280933.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0049/4237/files/93084759943.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5114/7679/files/bowuvilajorefibad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2712/8735/files/32945473446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4130/8320/files/22667201245.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7075/7791/files/24239399913.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5986/3961/files/derivative_of_a_function.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8461/1733/files/14220422240.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_off00009fc1.bin
bfc7a5a4bfb333e5e595ad3b56842520ceb909ebeadd0cc4a75f748c23e9d5de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FC1 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b1b2.bin
33b53c073368abb80849d05cf63ae6b298dfe6b4b9ea46868220fe079ef682d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1B2 10512 bytes