Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d9d993f0ff3386d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-10 04:45:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 325cdf31ffdf8a2fbc9b6b83167fb6ea SHA-1: 0471d0e306b36b7bf92cde9428b3135d8afb163e SHA-256: 0d9d993f0ff3386dd873e7ffe72b49215ec90084263a03609b4a88dc8a5703c8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious URL, disguised as a university map. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and text suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=cardiff+university+map+pdf
    • http://files.easiersaidthandone-teensexualabusers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164358/3939872.pdf
    • http://files.englishlizard.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682655/02179ac7a.pdf
    • http://files.eagleyoungmarines.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874266/4050232.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1791/0946/files/barthel_index_scale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5843/8039/files/77646820816.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0821/9560/files/calculus_early_transcendentals_8th_edition_solution_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2359/6711/files/losipivegu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1723/0741/files/nojagajaperuxabosakixajo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7342/0963/files/archinteriors_vol_44.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5148/2278/files/wogifi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7485/3793/files/bukukitabudeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7523/2153/files/mexadavurex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/campbell_biology_test_bank_free.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_off0000575f.bin
2c6a0d1adb83ebf3f74793b171b728107617f78bf5b09b7a436ac8616a279a2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x575F 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000691b.bin
db6fe3cf6c7b3a1a0f8742f8ef240b73c79403a0645ce5b2bc9d1da96f1399ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x691B 13912 bytes