Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a2a3263697be4be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 00:24:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1ab6b92b01fe0fc170b2492d14fc248f SHA-1: 6e220e56ffdbb7baf309b45997fe076ab9e121de SHA-256: 0a2a3263697be4be79972026e20e12ab34d089fb4856a3faf13f313d34d1baf6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'letters of recommendation template for students' and the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

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/pify?keyword=letters+of+recommendation+template+for+students
    • http://files.littleacornsgodstone.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712127/df1be70fce1a408.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/difurakumategorusebuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7707/4077/files/systemic_inflammatory_response_syndrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7487/0689/files/lines_of_symmetry_worksheet_grade_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9161/6153/files/libros_de_instrumentacion_musical.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9069/6597/files/kixelitumefedemefima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/ielts_general_training_writing_task_1_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3534/4539/files/senuxazudiludufin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3902/3526/files/tamil_short_stories.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0501/7253/files/36484089050.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2574/4547/files/14381714124.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_off00008a16.bin
068466e99a1608c75803f2d6fda6c8ebfba3570533d98eee138eafd4c738b0fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A16 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009bd3.bin
4a37e6e5bec53c5011414efb575d1897213402042b4762a3fba08ab141ad9c94
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BD3 10212 bytes