Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa91097e5d3bb9d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2020-11-24 04:45:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 08c0f7449f3f2ef0f415a90b682c6c6b SHA-1: 16bbd6befe073727e6bd0a09f9e715b9bee6e1d3 SHA-256: aa91097e5d3bb9d084f7a4dce8df509658bef95dc5e3fc317ddd083bb9ea2e27
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://cctraff.ru/123?utm_term=ucr+school+of+medicine+reddit'. This URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious URL in a PDF is a common tactic for initial access via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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?utm_term=ucr+school+of+medicine+reddit
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366661/normal_5f88f83e95820.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366031/normal_5f8bb01202416.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497395/normal_5faf7302e8716.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380701/normal_5fb8406a26a7d.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4453338/normal_5fa471f75c707.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/towutoginadivu/94694669114.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lorugipopuxe/pijisotu.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wilugugo/zusebat.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/viboxikuz/potato_catalase_enzyme_lab_answer_key.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/de433d3d-218b-4867-9fe9-8cbaeb46c9c7/concepto_y_clasificacin_del_enfoque_sistmico.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tofizo/97040116765.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lorifawuvawot/78322718379.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0704c6bd-e548-4f64-a086-49490e422705/christian_marriage_counseling.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fovezewi/branches_of_government_worksheet.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_off0000bb41.bin
88af7a6a229351b088d6bf9b1c9fe276229e99bd7100b045920c4a287013f1dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB41 5044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc44.bin
e1a4ea9b122c932605527d08f0031143abb24bff08df2227e03e2443e47d34de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC44 10104 bytes