Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dea6aa7d74a8a49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 23:01:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5b2934f797ee1584237e7f3dead6a26c SHA-1: 03db079405de644382179cb6a1066da493600192 SHA-256: 0dea6aa7d74a8a4940c22a4820508184bdd67294df8200f4b00569db2b08ce2b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'operating systems concepts 9th edition pdf solutions' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.com/pify?keyword=operating+systems+concepts+9th+edition+pdf+solutions
    • http://files.gobrazil.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874304/e62ac.pdf
    • http://files.alamosavalleyhumaneleague.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738534/nawigin_ferovezoda_sikiw.pdf
    • http://files.graceandgloryyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483148/tonuvefezux_nilotixa_fonivarifixa_kedegijogedif.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6997/3415/files/99383462876.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5015/3622/files/24936386683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7541/9812/files/72789294398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/delete_time_machine_backups.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5674/3079/files/lavipukapumixegovelap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9290/8963/files/niwagafise.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8197/3403/files/charter_spectrum_bozeman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6895/6565/files/widis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2955/2552/files/19326716116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/babape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7895/8758/files/17912846976.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_off000183f0.bin
fa475e38d1c026dc36708614b84fa37c5bbedceca29bc06ee1f526908f6a1b47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x183F0 5852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000197b8.bin
f201bc8e654dfcb98e9ee4a2da6bf63e17ed25eb28e26a9738d9f41d1ed78585
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x197B8 13940 bytes