Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 770ae513804a1ca9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2020-09-07 00:39:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 689b96d425582eace17e9cfe66908ac8 SHA-1: c8cd7b4e419d034df722587568b7c7d81f486751 SHA-256: 770ae513804a1ca9ef7c87dab1550025a264701d012172f6c0a68fbecacce70d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an 'acknowledgement letter format for dissertation' and the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content.

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.cc/wix?keyword=acknowledgement+letter+format+for+dissertation
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2271/5801/files/the_babylon_mystery_religion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0874/3834/files/41400050304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5989/4680/files/tukawam.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4f270c_461e227c1924449eb46dde311864d36e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3801ff_7e48c8746d634e5295875189aea294e5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8205/5829/files/jspdf_autotable_angular_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3912/9751/files/understanding_the_linux_kernel_5th_edition_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6046/9660/files/descargar_el_alferez_real.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7328/7830/files/33979968147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2662/7225/files/sawekinamekejoze.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fda9.bin
a17885b4fd577e0298a64705d5055d2ac7c2363fd7008e9cf236b3df412a17d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA9 2828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000107a3.bin
f2e7c62724ec84209f176e3c0e67db51cdafa84141ae4c0517ef8579ace0c243
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A3 5484 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a4f.bin
cec4c0d8e02cc677726a1b8c821ff21a96478f8c6daa25f487511e2f9bea3f20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4F 10156 bytes