Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09b2536652da8047…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:10:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 964328618606edb640e50e373bf12272 SHA-1: 93ad4a5463222b44b82256a14654bcc22b782c90 SHA-256: 09b2536652da8047d1b000780d385e69033e379b08ba2886f665b00e0a9744a7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=courses+after+12th+science+pcb+group+pdf', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, indicating its central role in the attack. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=courses+after+12th+science+pcb+group+pdf
    • http://files.psychologyib.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814032/xowuda-kuxep.pdf
    • http://files.brendarachel4angels.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455680/raxili.pdf
    • http://files.grennifer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482976/9969814.pdf
    • http://files.rachelmeetsplanet.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871745/pitiberuzaduv-xalawigumefubiw-xosatenuz-sedevilawo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9291/6886/files/89228409037.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/70945418412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6640/7589/files/11430275253.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/25593075172.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6491/8165/files/55916665874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4834/3464/files/black_american_literature.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1126/0062/files/98109963152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6356/6755/files/4473904030.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7808/9878/files/69794487007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1401/0518/files/43867391983.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0542/5310/files/anteversion_femoral.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_off00011fb5.bin
4ec6fc3c79f91ee2ef2852d56f59adf674ea76293caf0628939ca22000457665
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB5 5612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000132c1.bin
00e8f75ad8af6f6903b6764b3e67038e3641888c0cf25ebbe8fd861c6187fa7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132C1 16564 bytes