Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0647c2abf18e567c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 14:32:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5aa8785d9a0726109cd9fd99a2a0e606 SHA-1: e5aede0ab79b0217f674b30df98c3603ad44f4b8 SHA-256: 0647c2abf18e567c78bdfa7e174b8479f158bc43c24ec1740b6b3c88e85a4335
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded URLs, with one leading to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to an 'area of trapezium worksheet'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=area+of+trapezium+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.andavis.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070173/nujodagegatu-widorajaxamo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/2678/9030/files/faranaget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5329/3469/files/90081292613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6734/1974/files/resistors_capacitors_and_inductors.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5174/5442/files/56246439840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6030/5825/files/77378570896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1281/6034/files/66981906539.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8700/2790/files/bacterias_coliformes_em_agua_de_consumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4539/4331/files/wonodazemubikomelopifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2892/9960/files/bugox.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_off000047ba.bin
afb06d7f68a294e8da6cb5215a50adada828e1a9759aaeb6c6d7a0f641b35267
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47BA 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a2e.bin
c01dc79258e91757625fcc4967dd6a3ba3fd0e680348bd6299c873cc204fb0b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A2E 9532 bytes