Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0655e679da85851d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 02:10:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5a9463c9ceb3a9b86fc6cd500e351129 SHA-1: 52f6e47651fb1ca8dd13e892cb02ccef38cbba60 SHA-256: 0655e679da85851d3ed9c36fa3d07e3e741df86b9ef7d64eec748f378189eb19
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to problem-solving and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded link likely serves as a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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/pify?keyword=steps+involved+in+problem+solving+pdf
    • http://tonaxozik.elizabethdeangelis.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384284/72b9fa0606.pdf
    • http://wolixikew.welearnbyheart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379706/1902570.pdf
    • http://files.bitsetc.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695571/wasatokaleboz.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5249/8070/files/marshall_valvestate_2000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6522/1028/files/disikurolisefinujulit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7415/0809/files/17516702994.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5555/4470/files/21703898218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5711/8374/files/17250675707.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/4097/7574/files/reported_speech_affirmative_and_negative_statements_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6986/6133/files/mosabuxidarunasopepala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5573/4166/files/midiwevububivizigivafam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8642/9861/files/pikopagakem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6552/3862/files/fuvenesonipe.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_off00005e5b.bin
4e85e4ff84c40505ec93f2f0b7518664cb25ffb4920e9d09acce1bbf00caa948
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E5B 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070d1.bin
04cd34c5c25dedb356baf8db1563dc6ca8e0e382c33627497d58cb4fc55c1907
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70D1 9868 bytes