Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01d522bc895386e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 23:18:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1b96814263023fc16ae9e95c809afeb6 SHA-1: 72fb302e8a6176d21615d36f7411290dc064166f SHA-256: 01d522bc895386e9a4d7a39b692ec9d40b5867133985e36cd442e717da269ae1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a prominent link disguised as a free textbook download, which redirects to a known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of numerous other PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to the malicious redirector.

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.me/wix?keyword=foundations+in+microbiology+9th+edition+pdf+free
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5256334a210048ee94a97f102978c2ba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0a35383d41c1453a8a46c4ddd7051b09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4ad074537707482d9ef2dda3d167778b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_72dca2aab43849c2831309232ee23de5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f85d765a816a4ec080ce057d9bc9f162.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b66bdac578ff4bfe8809dfc5a824aae7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cd79e3_f587c41e33744f93926fb401cf7dd637.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_84cf620dcb064b84b6a80912177c186e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0ca8703a607c41c7a4bd67076a8dcb10.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d17951_321948676b114db78a73bcff461d58ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_83f05633342643548e1a060c9763ae51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c268c_5f8e70ae110d473dad50765941ebecbc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6656/3487/files/uefa_champions_league_fixtures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4978/7285/files/holland_code_career_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9365/5716/files/zaliludi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4659/1903/files/94221378843.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_off0000571b.bin
3119a25b138c407ad3d4a4618176922dfc6d0b2b1751b69c6465b38a3b9616d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x571B 5924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b1d.bin
3fae8cbaf787c3a37f60163068c9c3ae3cffd2746329981c95f345bc1e44ba3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B1D 9948 bytes