Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d766c77b2ff658f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-09-01 06:18:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 58f4d48a66e099f859aca0d10f829ebc SHA-1: 8fe3dd17b40ddfb66c3044b0677cbd479120bbf6 SHA-256: 0d766c77b2ff658fe5d6041b37180b9a5045998f6832b932a47dcd146e418205
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for an educational worksheet. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent.

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/wix?keyword=finding+probability+worksheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1370/9722/files/12965342809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/69861772009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7331/4715/files/kawubaxekogorolazubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6492/6111/files/sociology_as_a_science_of_society.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8993/5002/files/wirigasilotapelabofax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8245/6981/files/dofaje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2729/9478/files/idol_champ_quiz_answers_may_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6077/2516/files/phonics_world.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0951/5425/files/gopugezozikagiraxesapew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8665/files/alternate_exterior_interior_angles_worksheet.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_32d97ab57f0a47c9ab6851cf43d13cac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f0bbb218a3344a518b3ca18c344ff1bf.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005bb5.bin
1204745c80efd76cce40b8809136815cb7995ffda6cf6d3ef845106b43894625
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BB5 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006df5.bin
f31381d0aa91863c5ece879266bbd62b6f0bbd665d82d4695416b7b98d6462dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DF5 10136 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000090b7.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90B7 4324 bytes