Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 075118e424ae6766…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 09:24:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 03e64084988c7247ddae62f4fb273619 SHA-1: edb6a8f258c16837c5c8c002f176a4f4d5187f90 SHA-256: 075118e424ae6766d38277a9405a53acd710b52134b3274749ed96ffec2f514c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to exploit user trust by appearing as educational material to redirect them to harmful sites.

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.ru/wb?keyword=surface%20area%20of%20prisms%20&%20cylinders%20worksheet
    • http://files.trimhairlafayette.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740424/bebiweji.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/1204/1367/files/benim_hocam_video_ders_notlar_matematik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7812/2649/files/podus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0224/7838/files/96851738113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kuvesagapixunijibofalase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0631/2093/files/4826130915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5460/4198/files/81451055607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9569/5265/files/skewness_calculation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3279/6574/files/reading_comprehension_exercises_with_answers_grade_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4466/7553/files/35880190176.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000056dd.bin
204bd6ce283c50a84bafb80b85cd356e3209b5bf7fbae9e449265ac8ba45a0d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56DD 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006888.bin
8a1afceab767a31eba0453b2cbd8f5205a8705af55d904996f3d39ddf8781022
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6888 10176 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008b98.bin
912810d83e1329c5b7c28468a93f9d6f76e9af1121491381c6555e9c9326e0fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B98 16128 bytes