Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 875710291f6ff665…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2020-09-30 14:49:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 682c9bdb8eb5005af3e92af966ba8e1b SHA-1: 7553cf1fa3ee347b21e14d636074c48d3e5a4bf7 SHA-256: 875710291f6ff6650b7413e97476e84d0f4341ca7e7fde4f5f680a7954fe4188
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=database+hoarding+and+caching+techniques+in+mobile+computing+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://site-1036850.mozfiles.com/files/1036850/95522887894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bopewidor.bigdoginstallations.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453330/ziborusiruvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pittelwilkinson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437599/9010779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6f1d1e47-8383-4136-9eba-086c3b9fcf99/11892045738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d8a979b2-55da-4efa-85f2-96638c803d8f/51561704597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4f51c01-874c-48bd-887e-c682c4d38df4/49295996563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6900/2143/files/developing_tactics_for_listening_audio_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0481/3661/8133/files/the_autobiography_of_bertrand_russell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5110/3894/files/16869477898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0480/0321/9609/files/47669738746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB4 5832 bytes
SHA-256: a5a918347f3a4d090235ecddab239eb087a235499fe8949a0a9d637268cb01f6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF357 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 8fc01788ea3d52d70a5962724b3f8e0205ae2bf878c6e2ffcdf99f822f4cfdf3