Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a5edeab9b3d65e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 10:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7be0589050598f49698944dc2a3d31ef SHA-1: a861a2d02a12d090e8f112057da9959d34e2d1c6 SHA-256: 0a5edeab9b3d65e5687c62bd9d91fe640f0892ab7c7852692470e1ae2502c092
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on Shopify. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=belarus+state+university+of+informatics+and+radioelectronics', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to potentially harmful websites, possibly for phishing or malware distribution, under the guise of academic resources.

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=belarus+state+university+of+informatics+and+radioelectronics
    • http://files.reemslovenia.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398174/kosivi-fumijigepivupi-kekugekeje-siradatej.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0564/8807/files/pdf_ebook_reader_application.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8693/7253/files/64893476514.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5188/4449/files/guzateginu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9996/2024/files/tipaxozat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5552/0667/files/maparilojun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7251/4206/files/61611161513.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3902/3253/files/sekabimasesowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3303/3877/files/68867080504.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3802/1531/files/muwufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2669/4822/files/86762556015.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_off00007633.bin
ef64117162323370a7f364ce7ee330531d309001850822257fb698a6606e4195
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7633 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000886f.bin
0a8f710ed888ca8f83c677dda7293023f4943ea1b1bcc6b668c4f92f755ba45b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x886F 10744 bytes