Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 771a11bc4d29617d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-17 10:38:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb76cc4ca9a79bfcf93d5d29929a22de SHA-1: 41994e282b877a24523bfd7f5eadad7ef76ac808 SHA-256: 771a11bc4d29617d2d16dd8225c6e15cae979fa3cbce4753487294f5d03cb720
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector service, which is a common tactic for distributing malicious content. The PDF also features a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs further supports 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.cc/pify?keyword=tik+tok+audio+song++online
    • http://files.armstrongchoirs.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740211/gepilolomilarakop.pdf
    • http://files.scalestuff.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483371/9846c66b2a2c4.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2534/9283/files/autismo_diagnostico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9345/1159/files/fonizedotawupomorovak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9413/8277/files/alternator_problems_and_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7539/4977/files/juxekanakilazamiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/44219577828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1995/9463/files/labour_attendance_card.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2442/4853/files/92889996899.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7242/9980/files/jajonepovokimidal.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_off000067fb.bin
4352e761c190e6924140d95081ea563e8bac2b60c7bdb722b23a78a60388713c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67FB 4912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078b4.bin
fc4021e369c7333a3e2698b65512cd5ca33aa0a3949f6c925ad90d66ca89f0ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78B4 2528 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000083e5.bin
3d9823d01688ee657c6ba89d68a0a1dc954ceed5ca64deba2e48067f09449de5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83E5 10844 bytes