Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78da98a5828a4700…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 02:50:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec843e621198c46d4c9f975fb4f03cfe SHA-1: 668c340f70a69cb4998291ea4d42a9f9b80d7799 SHA-256: 78da98a5828a4700c72c538b68c99ead185324cdf396a9c99f0f03173686694a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text suggesting it is a 'backout letter template', likely a lure to encourage users to interact with the embedded links.

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=backout+letter+template
    • http://rerivewu.addiev.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384714/mopevazisikumoje.pdf
    • http://files.sarahminettemusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738870/6f9599.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5079/3122/files/google_sheets_sumif_multiple_conditions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6245/9544/files/91047313910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8411/8171/files/manejo_de_varices_esofagicas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0269/1743/files/1666373324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9543/2099/files/cops_theme_song_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6124/7138/files/nogosek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4134/2108/files/86341168088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2724/2903/files/bizatinob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7860/6229/files/niwazesuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/34394450817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8379/2545/files/64281500082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3337/7440/files/81428207007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1560/2337/files/wiwizabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6074/7688/files/cation_exchange_capacity_practice_problems.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_off000061ac.bin
6f0456cbfa03cc32a86e9306c8143fa19288bf2a7b5500b198fc5ebd29085b82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61AC 5012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000729f.bin
045f85a4162e0b6a9603717f46c5815d5dd1334a727a74b70bcb1fc91677fd82
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x729F 10244 bytes