Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0bf46282e196e484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:41:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eb2f2c9cd5fdc7acfb26ab1d946ef7fe SHA-1: 0b710f90eb5ec48d50571cdf8f55db4aedc1e8d7 SHA-256: 0bf46282e196e4845897360d0494d26934d4e9170cfb7ac3ee6908b9f5c0db33
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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.com/wix?keyword=reading+comprehension+passage+7th+gr
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/314c35_d5b549413189478e9546da92680f4cf4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_96ef957819994517b88d579f13cb03cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b0da1d4032d04b75bf8ad127122a9d82.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4e402_80c59829f1834e4b9f64ca0316a743c7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b972d5_458693891a2b49a6aef8ff9ff95c082b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_69113173249445e5b97519c50adec891.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_a1d8355364024092beffa94d62a46fea.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4801/8855/files/differential_calculus_derivatives_of_algebraic_functions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0298/5622/files/4668895012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0922/0503/files/bidirectional_visitor_counter_project_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7804/5086/files/factores_sociales_definicion_segun_autores.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4637/files/8792566331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7908/1894/files/ropigadujiwulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0331/3315/files/fovidisusogejawegevi.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_off00007b73.bin
0cf3160d129d92e07cd509ce46205399eadb8e4bb95056fb7b1bb5aa1196d58d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B73 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e24.bin
c20c582dbd414626f9c99668d95802ff6617c210920f1c23402a0ceaad70779a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E24 10328 bytes