Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f773abd93ae907c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-11-06 04:06:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1f0ff61cc92aa1abd2757f9a158dfbd5 SHA-1: 1c9d4ee1817111d6cd0fa3731819a5f5bad4ab0d SHA-256: 8f773abd93ae907ceaa871c2f3cc9b358ac3577b961c1447c08223699d73dadf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://cctraff.ru/123?keyword=bio+study+guide+final', which is flagged as malicious. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt, further indicating malicious intent.

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://cctraff.ru/123?keyword=bio+study+guide+final
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367940/normal_5f8b57748ffab.pdf
    • https://xitofubipu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134375163/zuporabifugakolit.pdf
    • https://digonowokeke.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856318/valedakivoxi.pdf
    • https://morupataniseb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134502176/6584518.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369308/normal_5f8d09c871976.pdf
    • https://winomumamo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070375/budonegeside-wewewumil-walewe-welazofilekel.pdf
    • https://deruwatago.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096830/zadoboloteb.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xetasif/nj_court_rules_time_to_answer_complaint.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jonora/word_that_start_with_s_and_ends_with_r.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gotijejaj/opposite_words_in_english_a_to_z.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zopamagiguti/ramadan_2020_nj.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/regegozumekoza/69766846477.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/muxegeza/the_caucasian_chalk_circle_play.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jepavilutabilel/aoac_official_methods_of_analysis_2005.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mejados/mizuxemiwiw.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_off000064ea.bin
ab0bb634da31047f32c41faf2f0835277b0e10f784ba55f69cece25f24ac16b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64EA 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007683.bin
98fa1423ecee8e4c2b75e7bad73982973529ef6a67466ebd66dee50547f75665
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7683 9920 bytes