Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77e3c44648425550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2020-07-29 09:21:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d63a686e2aae5c6172bd58179788d718 SHA-1: aace4b9166450a2a2d55adeb6387fdfdf4354d66 SHA-256: 77e3c44648425550b769c7b64430cb73e85e9dcedc87a3884f9272b62e6f0f88
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link disguised as a document about 'absurdity in literature' which redirects to a known malicious domain. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt, likely delivered as an attachment. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector URL is a high-confidence indicator.

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=absurdity+in+literature+pdf
    • http://files.dianastoic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483266/f6ecce4b.pdf
    • http://files.sharidesigns.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740873/9e9abec969b.pdf
    • http://files.jenniferroseheath.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739883/rudunozewi.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2733/1232/files/nixudimawamul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5665/9617/files/44609972763.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9565/4554/files/sufoxiref.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3164/9689/files/46468047643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8943/6580/files/zelabufurigopigazuvilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/bawuki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2337/6277/files/juputavaxezewasego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6228/8793/files/6210813282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9842/2934/files/28144853802.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_off00009450.bin
b4b2e446522eb9dc55be6112824f42891769ef20fcb412130acd9aac6b109099
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9450 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a574.bin
45f5a03aa79ace71479e0583da91b5edecefa22bc1103c1217ae81d6f00fb18d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA574 9908 bytes