Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02f204cb52b37ad4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-09-22 22:25:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5275ad677cd77b6cb9c134bb2038300f SHA-1: d1b5558d6e2058784bd43b824d9be6856c7eadcd SHA-256: 02f204cb52b37ad498178c3d1ae578a94cafdf7e747a35bc4cfa726ffecf2143
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'character traits worksheet answers' and a URL, suggesting a lure to external malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF links points to a link farm strategy, likely to distribute malware or conduct phishing.

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.link/wix?keyword=serial+direct+and+indirect+character+traits+worksheet+answers
    • http://xifaze.vagabondgeology.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636917/fopewitobizisesijovo.pdf
    • http://jiruwotir.robbieleespencer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740558/vuvudujusuzaw_pitirofer_raxitavopir.pdf
    • http://tesedoxez.encorewomenschoir.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163992/neganakoranewixa.pdf
    • http://satevi.theamaniconsort.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738918/3956893.pdf
    • http://pozuta.kyokanconnect.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859527/fc1027.pdf
    • http://guloxixes.sbednarski.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606615/fotodakul.pdf
    • http://files.rynolabz.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695301/313b6b8ed8b2.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5840/4245/files/atypical_3_temporada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/0232/3094/files/wiwegez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4706/files/62233369654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1571/6516/files/color_coding_the_periodic_table_student_worksheet.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_off000052f3.bin
5159e3f44f859d39e21e2f8adc23fc973542b7c69cd9515653e712c57aec36bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52F3 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064f6.bin
abdf58d8d5214470d860ee276ee81919632df166186299a0368d443dafbd8122
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64F6 14232 bytes