Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 020609532956261f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 18:29:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 30b6212c7c37c5bb6ab33174be0fe61a SHA-1: 475296170ae32322644b547b0dfff2ca2187216b SHA-256: 020609532956261f5db4f42ce1483c5dbff6c461e82493b008a85d8305424f00
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate external resources. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document designed for redirection or SEO manipulation.

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.cc/wix?keyword=english+writing+skills+worksheets+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b3bc21_bf1239a1056f4135b19e120ff59a207f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_098e46542e014b1aa1f46a9e57ee44f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_951fbc97f0314ad6833cd4c16376dd10.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9fef6998794846d1a3f7112cc3b3cd04.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0097/7816/files/reses.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6481/1927/files/14951261270.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ef3ce485d6de47268a4e9a7bbb992ec6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cfab689366b6402a9743d9a9f90d4de0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4433/7824/files/asme_bpvc_2019_changes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7400/8741/files/bharat_song_pagalworld_manikarnika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4390/0827/files/accounting_cycle_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5981/3279/files/makikugoxibevalawefosekej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2785/5522/files/rozataxafofonaxitipepokuw.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_off00006ef1.bin
d378208e13512cd2f838291b5daf48e04b8223e0c0b378bdba9b5ac8493b1c95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EF1 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080b9.bin
60818bf3030549b7d8d6871e4aa91dc8993b975dbbf1e435adc0f9758cc5d811
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80B9 10304 bytes