Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f1a6df767a20b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-26 18:15:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 53b3d1dd6133d0c2cdfa0a1a2f6bb9f6 SHA-1: 0b8ac386fbb4117b72a721af1840f86ca9e958bd SHA-256: 78f1a6df767a20b92a72fd436d182abf7e174c3aa458439fa59c9e1c28685596
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, a significant portion of which are designed to lead to external resources. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=walter+piston+harmony+pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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=walter+piston+harmony+pdf
    • http://zezox.ridgeroasters.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453598/dd1a6df63d5.pdf
    • http://nisut.uslasoccer.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969742/2038437.pdf
    • http://files.mywhiteengineering.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738803/xetakut.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2499/0887/files/zopabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/talegoxenereb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9588/3925/files/29410793701.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9141/files/all_my_loving_ukulele_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/76323180957.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1481/4885/files/358201933.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7079/1573/files/pictograph_worksheets_grade_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1471/7597/files/bayesian_inference_and_decision_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/detailed_lesson_plan_in_english_adjectives.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/0639/9388/files/aliran_ahmadiyah.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_off00006aaa.bin
4686516e211fdba2e8db061c21121df57242e9eb24c6acef202c9e55c067a499
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AAA 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ce0.bin
b30f5b9690fe4164c93b1b429ae33b1c7b313e978e241f3e27809ab4e4ad18ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CE0 10396 bytes