Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86b7791ff1c0890d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.2 KB Created: 2020-08-07 13:23:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 86ecf3ab41d982f3dbb2e0728016048e SHA-1: a71200e0e3be552adbeb224b16d063200dbc1a09 SHA-256: 86b7791ff1c0890d2e3c5b1715c12b51b78466c1864ddd3e241406eb90834573
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'toefl itp reading comprehension practice test pdf' and a URL that matches this theme, suggesting a lure for users seeking study materials. The presence of a link farm further indicates an attempt to drive traffic to external sites, potentially for phishing or malware delivery.

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.com/pify?keyword=toefl+itp+reading+comprehension+practice+test+pdf
    • http://files.dongpu.studio/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873708/xitabelusimi.pdf
    • http://files.jesusgoes2italy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871730/392450.pdf
    • http://files.gamingcomputersstoreunit.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163980/e9388b1dfc7e1e.pdf
    • http://tofazosin.taylorcdotson.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/xujatetu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1763/3949/files/94261500036.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2057/3080/files/briggs_and_stratton_engine_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0197/0837/files/75718068832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9324/5590/files/78937551522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2457/9736/files/pain_train_tf2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8032/7076/files/91166309940.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6911/0432/files/13655191524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4018/7303/files/zetulisirazituman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7684/5728/files/dajutatif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0775/3888/files/system_analysis_and_design_tutorial_free_download.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_off0000ac94.bin
997ee9055abd8f1b83b10a384bd183e9ec856c37e2d29eaaebae520ad6f6d358
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC94 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bf2e.bin
0bf440db543467b29f08d8f97668b769eaaa933ebedac73dfdc218f08a05f924
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF2E 10708 bytes