Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 978faf9dd6bb78ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:12:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3942d189d3ef3dea7e4375e0dacb8d8 SHA-1: e21447f372665bc416ce1cecb613af25dca24612 SHA-256: 978faf9dd6bb78aed32cf53a4e05d437317cdf1de1ac13e7d6964b5143aff221
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=introductory+statistical+mechanics+bowley+pdf'. This indicates a likely attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, possibly for phishing or to download further malware. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=introductory+statistical+mechanics+bowley+pdf
    • http://files.morethansoulfood.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302973/timuf.pdf
    • http://files.senyahsilver.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483108/37a2340cefe48d.pdf
    • http://files.photographtheheath.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453177/7079102.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/81236671698.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7692/7142/files/65731999457.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/11147191401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7958/1352/files/pinerewoxaposikekilezevas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9148/3042/files/bipipofug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4535/5682/files/xedowawibirofulamozokira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5138/files/jezitekafojamufif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9065/4870/files/tovenezukoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8184/3353/files/rupixiwasaziwimipipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7251/1386/files/pirefafidobevozutewisa.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004a81.bin
28acca2657c24670f7fcb176cb68b7524677782758b32d09b247ead92bc32346
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A81 5664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005dad.bin
6023b1be997dad0ed4abc54ba366448162963e3884788c87591ff51d6a2220b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DAD 9584 bytes