Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ce733b0c3e64902…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 05:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0832b066fdce99a303218647f54ce18f SHA-1: a811e9d5fcf14361e34add1ea9b26bb8f39f4e8f SHA-256: 7ce733b0c3e64902a06a0bcbf428e4b617b8872338b0ecc531eae46e760f1a5d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains a lure to install a browser update, a common social engineering tactic. It embeds multiple links, one of which points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site for further exploitation or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=chrome+new+version++64+bit
    • http://talizigot.aklkansas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483334/zasovijimax.pdf
    • http://files.onstagetheatricalproductions.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740870/9747311.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5652/9565/files/69408561949.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6447/5304/files/98896013761.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4409/1557/files/printable_color_wheel_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3433/7695/files/digital_marketing_strategy_template_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9797/files/carson_dellosa_math_4_today_grade_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4840/2081/files/82778020630.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0460/8155/files/70790262276.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1610/8707/files/cheryl_yung_gravy.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_off0000621c.bin
a25a31facf699a4848231e01f204c9f02522a406ddbeba2559ce45f026b06145
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x621C 5124 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007384.bin
980e316815762c2b758012adfa4153e39ae6729c3b89868b9d24626f26715291
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7384 10992 bytes