Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 895dba946dc07879…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 22:29:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 19bd292504d4b89c1863549ba0a7d8b7 SHA-1: 6aaa79bb0afe6fbc72e39138954e88d2470ee248 SHA-256: 895dba946dc0787969285e9ddb338771fc59a5b30c317ada74910bd460b6b786
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'physically based rendering' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. The presence of a malicious redirector and a large number of external links strongly suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful websites.

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=physically+based+rendering+pdf+free
    • http://files.botarlaszlo.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397950/4405481.pdf
    • http://gumuf.graceumchurch.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776031/8796245.pdf
    • http://files.whistlingfrogresort.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681002/masaberilanimubaloji.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9282/8579/files/70058494938.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7777/9100/files/las_frases_mas_comunes_en_ingles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9542/5191/files/58394549262.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4772/1892/files/microbiologia_veterinria_dwight.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2983/files/tasopurawasiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7500/9696/files/calligraphy_practice_sheets_tombow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73807437975.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7284/0090/files/kajelisad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1992/7713/files/33780503476.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1177/6416/files/jusopad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1384/7710/files/tanezutuwodejukunurabidu.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_off00007ceb.bin
cb80578d11676b4065cea2dd6cb566cd40fe18d8ffa23273e82e1aa55032577d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CEB 5660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009014.bin
aaada90f362392577e127202d3c7383725a74c668ef5beee967346347c2d6122
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9014 10468 bytes