Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0aa49cd182f67d9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-26 08:55:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 141bca6e954fea78d9917211fa399e72 SHA-1: 9fff93472d101d2eda0ed4f4e3c4f1509bd3d54b SHA-256: 0aa49cd182f67d9bda2793f53ecf36bd3951ff89f529143613e692fbbbecff26
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 and embedded URLs suggest a lure related to academic materials, likely to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external links points to a link farm strategy.

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=fundamentals+of+acoustics+4th+edition+solutions+manual
    • http://files.shadesbyshanni.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379343/sopiworobogo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8882/2950/files/change_to_jpg_on_ipad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46150969179.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0444/3299/files/sanezenukovisemuxewovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7157/2885/files/99201657303.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0233/9232/files/5.11_tactical_watch_1607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7062/6723/files/bacteriophage_genetics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/vajiwuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9740/0223/files/vasiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7573/9560/files/83216504191.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3501/6863/files/nabela.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2995/files/sensory_evaluation_of_wine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3698/2952/files/kojurixolox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1715/9335/files/wajupojijunowab.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_off00004801.bin
0e327ad5357ec6b51d2ff6afc481e2b57ee0713c77de80d31980a6d22be88ee9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4801 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005993.bin
4d0c5b90ca7db4d613313b50f31a9d2b0ee8fa79029a0be8cf546cdebcb25c81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5993 9508 bytes