Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0203d23692418be0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-15 13:42:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9789e63f30ed093837b0ece9244ec8a2 SHA-1: bdfe1e6a2e039b02a534be023a3fc2b906c6fea1 SHA-256: 0203d23692418be0bcf578b31c1b06195db8699135b3b84c95e3ccd0e52ccd91
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a redirector service, which in turn points to other potentially malicious PDF files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'cognitive ability test' and the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing or scam lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links further indicates a link farm or redirection strategy.

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.ru/wb?keyword=cognitive%20ability%20test%20free%20pdf
    • http://xezuxuxaw.mahachimeadowsdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/0f8c8fdb2fc2b03.pdf
    • http://files.ronnielane.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398504/wifeletag.pdf
    • http://files.designbydecorum.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873880/96bc2.pdf
    • http://xewopawe.vccburlington.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/pekagapapefomuja.pdf
    • http://files.pippayoga.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969182/3866155.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7614/8638/files/kufasadisulevutupemujipak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6107/6387/files/34105624243.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3866/8965/files/canon_5d_mark_iii_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9910/2115/files/pedifovisimajarunenesubu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2827/3562/files/securecrt_7._3_full.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/mixesavuponofob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8688/9625/files/70472623105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/6816/4005/files/zuzovoxawi.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_off00006c3a.bin
712431bfc3db10d5b357fb4a5c83c331a39e864e5ecbb7b1fb78afdf0fb6b305
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C3A 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007eb7.bin
755ac77679414a477c81af008d6df7beea85350927e63faff78a17900812d832
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EB7 10128 bytes