Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 877730ffa137a0a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 09:12:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ea4895bfc71e1ee7c8d875d95ed66f02 SHA-1: 64ffd77017f788b2c02bea02fbc9534508194b23 SHA-256: 877730ffa137a0a259cc7349a15543b4ef466d99a1a6681b288f9b1d41c60111
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. The document body, though obfuscated, contains a URL that mirrors the malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious links as academic material. The presence of many external PDF links further indicates a link farm used for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content.

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=bahan+ajar+akuntansi+biaya+pdf
    • http://laneves.bearcreekfrenchies.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383791/7344864.pdf
    • http://files.crepusculumchoir.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814192/masanejerawuz.pdf
    • http://files.kevinpascalethomas.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738789/b17dc7ffc2adcae.pdf
    • http://files.lmbuer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775400/8544276.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5096/4904/files/gepami.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4526/5318/files/viscous_fluid_flow_white_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8919/9268/files/jogizodexo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7573/9553/files/wiped.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1868/0482/files/12537964372.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5248/2208/files/solucion_isotonica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6910/2485/files/carol_of_the_bells_satb_a_cappella.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2151/6448/files/15297256620.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5497/1557/files/zekatomozivuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kuvesagapixunijibofalase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/67768868558.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_off00005b6b.bin
c66950370a5d0227c68c778ee763747a91d159abe17505790e28e72150b654b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B6B 5528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e38.bin
ada83942599104a33fb959ff8b76fe41e636633d8d820d12cccb40cbc7602a1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E38 13584 bytes