Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c9caeea3d526bb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

135.1 KB Created: 2020-08-16 23:30:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4ea3ffceb411c67fbd8913d4cb38a9db SHA-1: 5e634eab6072a07d076f2ad1d87dab8d681fb3f3 SHA-256: 0c9caeea3d526bb149d497486e27b8b833319af3008ad500a015426ea58694b9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious links as educational material. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=glencoe+pre+algebra+worksheet+answer+key
    • http://files.lkhardware.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739570/1460863.pdf
    • http://files.reikidesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383924/tatug.pdf
    • http://files.bucknerinsurance.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398292/nokugewek_bonevukutok.pdf
    • http://files.ginacampbellemdr.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814288/3ef3007.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2303/1720/files/91660446317.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0380/5847/files/20851425857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5131/7408/files/genetics_12th_ncert.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2096/8351/files/pamomeputufarifapunadidan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9803/8679/files/81873357433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4957/3784/files/31632779214.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2957/6352/files/xogezonigigowibujoxivufik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0252/7897/files/lasugobamerisumetib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/soreluseloxajakikolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0878/5562/files/vixoromofuzesomufaf.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_off0001cd01.bin
40130c57ca0bdbcedb901c0ae6ae977bf05ca2a37b97641ad37417782ebdcf5c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CD01 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001e02d.bin
33fa375ccf5262f25a775c2ac7f8c849cdce2316a536edf1e01c9c43cf2d934f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E02D 14916 bytes