Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 774600ee1b037c32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 07:10:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9fbe337118f9da9831ac25b0b3625309 SHA-1: 1252de5e1ae90939279eae3cdf7f9bf51157fd21 SHA-256: 774600ee1b037c32a56bb535a0052c138dd0fc28db04343da085ba28df53d7c0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially obfuscated, includes the same topic as the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful 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.ru/pify?keyword=vikings+chiefs+injury+report+today
    • http://files.policeaward.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454034/tebuduw_xifutudebanaw.pdf
    • http://files.mimisyummies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406841/4052480.pdf
    • http://xegejude.wessexmaternityacademy.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437657/zoxodoke.pdf
    • http://files.derekroddysblackheadedpythons.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379948/mevaxomelivewa_bupowubegutuzu_megilobo_zufifek.pdf
    • http://xuwal.friend-vibes.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682646/5917524.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9603/9839/files/70513808503.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5181/0969/files/duzatakesis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2222/9397/files/defamutisogiropufomorogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7324/5077/files/96812193377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3303/3877/files/50181986611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7096/3350/files/famelijawo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7920/5013/files/maxapifevizegawetegupave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4218/6150/files/derewixig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0808/9499/files/10886311083.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2315/5878/files/88119359740.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_off00005fb0.bin
98ee38257f0b953f89d0c738e6bd54617fb08a16756eeebeaf1e379747c7cc79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FB0 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072b5.bin
826cc3ffce3bcc3a17c91fb8e1a7c0e7e18eb914c25c95c25b0466c91528c1f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72B5 9996 bytes