Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ca5687ccc2e5960…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:00:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0330acf606b6102147f3e19f69ad64dd SHA-1: 87a9ffc1e82dac48bb5838bb8b814b3d2212f8fe SHA-256: 0ca5687ccc2e59608c14bc38151860b41cd86718e8aeaa24e1da9a878438c76f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, including one identified as a malicious redirector, designed to lead users to external websites. The heuristic firings indicate this PDF is part of a link farm, likely intended for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this document.

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/wix?keyword=prepositional+phrase+practice+sheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8921/3093/files/9850131616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0765/3526/files/tonejopudiziparewobajoxil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/97625634833.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de02f3_a33709851f34458fa867d81d8b405538.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_95443c9a2d2045878d48648be14c63ed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0bf5f0542ac040e7a0fded49a6d5ec24.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c0fca2_c55635f7c592429d9885d892d3f7fcb2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_f14eebc87cc047e39eeb1dcf02003876.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1b9d70110b3948df8272df390e36050c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e02969_1ab2e07a27484c00923bebe6a04b757b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0049ca_49b6e3917d044e2298704d72d58338cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c06aa9a950d47d0ab8dfdb6f6a23d72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8801f67e37f84cefb3a1839db9e3e676.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_885af6201ff048b087ed5d83db6c7ee1.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_off0000ce7a.bin
cb00d2e07950ca6de7d713bcc4e2346be36c37d70951fea3e6cdef9eca1f70ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE7A 5020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000df7e.bin
654cd849e1fd60e361ec68b479fee7419071f81b4a890b433a377e805320da46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF7E 12492 bytes