Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 878e072373a96c32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 11:24:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7b3de2d8b46a5ba00b1472905c5ed0b2 SHA-1: 746ed99ecbc372fd6ae71781dae3ec275a40fa37 SHA-256: 878e072373a96c328cec9e4c2105a7cd9bce2589a46b572da0e98bd34af58922
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a submission form, likely a lure to encourage clicks on the malicious URL. 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://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=box+tops+submission+forms
    • http://sopisu.jenkatz-buonincontro.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/4717401.pdf
    • http://sival.motorcycletheworld.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380429/wugikam.pdf
    • http://files.mrwhitchermath.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/ruwofujep_subodoja.pdf
    • http://xuposiwaf.hotpinktravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/cf4f429406.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9717/0847/files/biology_notes_in_english_for_ssc_cgl.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4333/8912/files/satonozala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5699/6260/files/pumunapaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2017/9864/files/jowadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4844/9686/files/mezude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2557/files/tojujepanuzenugapuga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3915/2535/files/pubakonun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/tesujidak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1691/2037/files/sumuzabamikonusisiror.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/jurnal_penelitian_titrasi_argentometri.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_off00006eb3.bin
953f34d4dde7adf032c1851b94949df0096b179f41b6052b748d3b5bfa4eff90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EB3 5060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007fd6.bin
efaaa97cdf8e44b998babef301fb4dbd879bc9e409d25c8917a5019288379105
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FD6 10852 bytes