Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05fe2bffab37e279…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 12:15:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a5961a26b30358c099dfecef3765625e SHA-1: ac4ce9069724029ab81437557d519673260dfd4f SHA-256: 05fe2bffab37e2799045ec1638e4dc71ae614fa7a728141540e72be7df566e79
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting an educational context ('electromagnetic spectrum worksheet') to lure victims. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or SEO spam. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further stages of infection.

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=electromagnetic+spectrum+worksheet+with+answer
    • http://files.trainlikeaprodc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384484/betozulaguxi.pdf
    • http://xidik.wheatgrasspublishing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680981/e547940.pdf
    • http://nutin.empoweredmotherdoula.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/496e9ca460.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4811/6119/files/caremark_specialty_prior_authorization_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2140/1237/files/36227895590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3001/2316/files/pudigekavasuwegun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8987/9445/files/67522479010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6995/6245/files/41828736584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7920/5031/files/blank_abc_book_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6508/7902/files/mezelowemawanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4093/1991/files/62758168867.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6127/0935/files/84877893570.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_off00005f7f.bin
d5b3abce1ad43e7310d7e5ce464a7d3b306b4e007874d55d2e4c39ca4c2493e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F7F 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071f6.bin
cbcdc25a9574abd8623a1d68bb56dad8df1de3709d204df3dfc2c826eead4f6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71F6 10568 bytes