Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cad448e14859c83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 03:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 72bd2595b4877c527c3803ef06bfd623 SHA-1: 1e101855566f2c58e743ea74c158bc5fd502f6b4 SHA-256: 0cad448e14859c8336d5bb67b035b6603e2678a242dd58d4a92785673d5986c3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a redirector service, which is a common tactic for distributing malicious content. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure related to IELTS preparation, but the primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful websites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links points to a link farm or redirection scheme.

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/pify?keyword=ielts+adjectives+and+adverbs+pdf
    • http://files.martinsvillesoapworks.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682076/5226262.pdf
    • http://vipofi.ravensrelics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776791/dogav.pdf
    • http://files.rabbitcustom.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164112/lebonor.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7685/9557/files/business_plan_template_powerpoint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9843/0876/files/airfield_ground_lighting_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1557/5464/files/wifigaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7829/5450/files/gifikitoxotubezikore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0537/0791/files/kajisojedaparob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9229/6358/files/zajasoratuxotojigudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6201/8716/files/11073836611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5129/4619/files/49164084917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/antilog_table_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9183/6566/files/37456306123.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_off00005cb7.bin
d3c59966fcac7c59965a314c62fe61ac21020756a94f4dc5a95dcd917134189b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CB7 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f0a.bin
4f825fa58c7645c9144ca6e3943cdb3301d24a632043419b4269b8c11913d7a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F0A 10336 bytes