Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 054faaf17f20504a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 02:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 98edb2ee25e22346fb195e0e5393a1b3 SHA-1: 89bffe6b0f79b5074f1423b06950571be5c35d8f SHA-256: 054faaf17f20504ae10d2dc50dfc0895ed44cdaa26bd1efea28fe27900743e47
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, disguised as 'Enzyme catalysis lab answers'. This heuristic, combined with the ML classifier flagging the PDF as malicious, strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack. The document body and embedded links are designed to trick the user into visiting the malicious URL.

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=enzyme+catalysis+lab+answers
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0834/9592/files/33208833131.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0419/9075/files/82781053543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/pazamejasezivexotodu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/calculus_for_the_life_sciences_greenwell.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dipipopiluniwewikojidil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/6845/8917/files/vixemujukuvojamo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b9a87_00f6f9229fed43a5864f97fec8670d11.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc98cc_2f447eafeeec4fe8ba34e0c308d80821.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e7e4a0_96d1b71e6c5345cb94799d3e77b6d368.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0c41e7_4cb0c9d0064a401e8a591c591fef55e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca300b_9a71de18d1394cd89e58728d1f501445.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c0812bb7e82e41c58e9700235dc98bac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ec0c41_4551eb2f436f4a03a93fb7c04002fe67.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_off00006850.bin
1128813c5994795a7e57de38e147a38b455035f2303ec70fc3307dd63adba901
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6850 4964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007922.bin
1ed26365df9c182d9a6b943f796e724243c0fd631f20763b55f3b5123d0fbb24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7922 14924 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a753.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA753 4324 bytes