Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77fbb889cc58b152…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 03:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 32d3e219f9c14e1e983c49dcc84f6197 SHA-1: ae98d4af7cc7ede968c1aea02598a61c92e4182f SHA-256: 77fbb889cc58b152063392116d5e74b2f0858d47e9c66f9b3df5dc19f4eabd21
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with the primary link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or lead users to phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is weaponized to facilitate malicious redirection.

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/wix?keyword=amazing+grace+song+download+free
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_75560a67bc894a448044a18ddd58077f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3d3eb8c9cf294477bd1a2e232c109eff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f303b18b54a047ce8b31f22858190580.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_82604b37717b438c8eb4eb3c6dadff66.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_6fb1f845985f44278e9a2685af322b31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a01749_37f42f75bdb04261b9569172ab440c87.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ed579ad385854d5c88d434ac03084648.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc98cc_2f447eafeeec4fe8ba34e0c308d80821.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f5c39ae288aa48338b4977a89dcd2e02.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/764aaa_a6d6b4767b0245919a0d99446f371382.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1264/3223/files/column_addition_worksheets_year_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0571/2296/files/vefuzadiwegududifafuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4024/1829/files/sozozebonoxuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/4963/9077/files/acronis_cloud_storage_data_sheet.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_off0000423d.bin
9e8b3cb32ca3f5a6ea60b973199fce476eb40b234416156747d9a5a4ab407122
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x423D 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000054cc.bin
6b5cf3a1ab6ef44cc5a7457482abd0f85dc61181fd57638b205d2f3b9f4421a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54CC 9376 bytes