Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dddebc3a90816bba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-11-01 16:16:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21b582db58585f45e72ef282bdea4355 SHA-1: 7ba56d803ff0abea610188eeebf29ad87ca518c5 SHA-256: dddebc3a90816bba5e3a9964bc52c8608b95d49e86ad43786a5ed5404115796f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to its inclusion of a link farm pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the heuristic findings. This suggests the PDF is intended to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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://ggtraff.ru/strik?keyword=a+day+in+the+life+of+a+knight+from+medieval
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403814/normal_5f9633970fe2b.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425507/normal_5f97e71aaf572.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b661e6f-2fd9-48ae-97fc-393cab0ba32d/88041144684.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/7219/0147/files/viduf.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fce07ae4-b2b0-4735-a74f-f226d5f4f0d1/87342691944.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0503/6297/4395/files/uva_cost_of_attendance_2020-21.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/db3da284-6143-4173-9e41-115acc655c5f/75228448468.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ee98a206-9118-446a-b7b2-3056611afde6/vozefetituf.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4a7cefc-2334-454a-9b1a-90492293db88/62292093040.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/665de013-1a72-41ba-997a-5f40fd17c4b6/donipekokarulinolejalu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0496/7343/7348/files/66356423961.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_off00007b7a.bin
8356316873cb6bf56fa97ee1595e48730edc8e3518072baac54ae0a7468e302c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B7A 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d9e.bin
8deac931de4452281f6c497bf7714f9b5b59c9cdad5ed8bddf47b4a689c3e30a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D9E 10216 bytes