Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0582c853aaeee2bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:28:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 078b91f2ce850bf58103d3a5541eb406 SHA-1: d60d56e5555465e8894f59e779fb328e190bae46 SHA-256: 0582c853aaeee2bc2e8bc2fe139306f1b26c2c15f704077dc1a8e54b28d0962c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, masquerading as educational content, that point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO abuse. The document body, though corrupted, contains the URL that triggers the malicious redirect.

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/pify?keyword=addition+math+worksheets+for+2nd+grade
    • http://manuzi.downonthefreedomfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384081/finudu.pdf
    • http://files.assv4u.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379591/8524758.pdf
    • http://zumur.francescomptonlibrary.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637309/a65632ab15dd20e.pdf
    • http://vopowimub.barronparkpreschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164048/paneginozuzuw_tugigekinafukot.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8713/4882/files/73611223321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5730/8063/files/red_proto_drake_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7418/2563/files/operational_auditing_principles_and_techniques_for_a_changing_world.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1267/0111/files/xizeliwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6713/6413/files/sixav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3432/8735/files/apush_themes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9226/1529/files/46691125526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8424/3351/files/rizeporepageneminomanetof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4472/4133/files/53549605663.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9433/4869/files/28638782728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3048/4904/files/kajon.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_off00005e91.bin
63abf75a7d0b6150d07ca701af37a5125ef9100c1d759e1d851ff8b5a203e4d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E91 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007161.bin
83ad5ee8e47d8c1424c80d561218f35c55e1386ce539d18fce2319a0819683a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7161 10384 bytes