Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5f632a2d1b259c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.4 KB Created: 2020-11-05 19:22:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8602b9527f8d0fe7a0c6658db8b20ef9 SHA-1: e430662c67a24f171f7219c24d32e8bb5e089eed SHA-256: c5f632a2d1b259c2a66b8a7601ad795aa2191a194c3f8a8c2bb3280101a68f16
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, cctraff.ru, which is disguised as a search result for a book. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure the user to malicious infrastructure, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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/aws?keyword=church+history+in+plain+language+4th+ed+pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420910/normal_5f97602377cf2.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369907/normal_5f9a27c5e6c2a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389568/normal_5f9b7ce1ba2d9.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408702/normal_5f9dc73f4037a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375210/normal_5f8a94a98da58.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fikuvine/mudikuxuzilitunebe.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/buxoparadazegu/torrent_pc_call_of_duty_black_ops_2_repack.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/927d733e-dde5-4536-9cc5-71dbd5514f38/4799937936.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/90b23723-461f-41bd-b16e-7006b9cb9f97/gay_in_arabic_word.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bulolimepol/20549026673.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/8684/7399/files/wicked_nights_gena_showalter_read_online.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zetare/rachmaninoff_vocalise_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5952/8355/files/skyrim_companions_quest_bug.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zonebon/nefogirojiso.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bopuxosavubare/catarino_erasmo_garza_rodrguez.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wibedubosateg/physics_classroom_waves_answers.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_off00004659.bin
1a44859788d5b26097acbdec46a86f1face650d5dbd11ddec61cbdd1a6f96d65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4659 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000591f.bin
a7cb3df5c46aebebd7b1b3ab3cd34931b2ed40ce13adfe77fe33f99f55880550
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x591F 9168 bytes