Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0519f98b76dd9e50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 15:39:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 476370e1396d01386acf6b61bf369846 SHA-1: 324b91e1264c7a4a6c2e97bf0607b63533b927a0 SHA-256: 0519f98b76dd9e50dfb9ac2658c97c8d2463df27b4dce34cfe15de227e02825b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Android tutorial for beginners 2019 pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wix?keyword=android+tutorial+for+beginners+2019+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3656/5923/files/xovab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0536/1821/files/kumoselagideva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1119/4525/files/78938021120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7352/3112/files/bsc_nursing_syllabus_bfuhs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2040/0286/files/brahmo_samaj_notes.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b2c09_7b9e289297d8403f92ba491e7d1087b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1813b3_a6b467c52ad448e5b7bd3324f844130d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2c2bc_df63f8bf5854430dab80363cb3ae94e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f473a4c9cbd24e5c98d85ae586332a7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e4fa1653ca33411caa31b1ca406e597a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/95089d_8cead4dee3d64caa9e002ce9d5f358c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f1814_13507277e3734c6cb6b54d9fd47b6faf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/49be48_0f5df7440c5040dc86dd3e1599f5ac73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15d534_746d0972908840ae99ab4c392b283a9e.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_off000065ad.bin
06373139e0c099a842777f7fa60ea0c125aafbfe047a5080b8de004ddd32ae1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65AD 5820 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000798c.bin
b03cb7fe2f3ef165f7a7e58715d49688f548fc8dd2e02bedfd7aabc65054a046
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x798C 10700 bytes