Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 047c1562adfc820f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 14:43:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 82823ac87b9b0ad14a43c483caa941d8 SHA-1: 0c64a5061eadf9143814938b60a7bf57afe1d1e6 SHA-256: 047c1562adfc820f0ec0f9a8f92ea8df457ae494c90cec42c85dd221feed18f9
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 is a common tactic for distributing malware or phishing pages. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to educational materials and a URL that appears to be a lure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself contains numerous links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains but one critical link to a known 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.com/pify?keyword=cambridge+igcse+business+studies+student+book+pdf
    • http://rarujinaf.objectpages.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453872/jogadug_falerun_visimuleve_fibawesazu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0299/2536/files/google_sheet_to.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4939/4071/files/90992157282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3480/3352/files/ginujonulatafak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6340/2905/files/48381263844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3028/1377/files/87555674113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zobirunutopuwipigodilig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3894/6981/files/6956611475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3395/0358/files/arithmetic_progression_class_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5480/9759/files/jopatuvaferadu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004813.bin
32eabcf06724f6677a55ba2d36aa26e43cc2ea93af9006152b00d15b9e21a7c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4813 5552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ae3.bin
f446e90b85ef48ed70d0d2c7ce54a980066679862309601e76ba3e5ca5201cda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AE3 10168 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007d9e.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D9E 4324 bytes