Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e410e3b094eb0ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 01:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec690d62371818456385c00ece446535 SHA-1: e7bf1633a3c2760d1f5450784ec1c6c9c4b9ab22 SHA-256: 0e410e3b094eb0ba6122aff41218dedcd48f918817bf4cede3f60365b103e6af
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically a URL designed to lure users with the promise of "Coursera courses answers". The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's part of a link farm intended to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF's nature as a redirector and link farm points towards a phishing or scam attempt.

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/pify?keyword=coursera+courses+answers
    • http://gogoxe.thesolarlesotho.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606407/4154826.pdf
    • http://files.tacticalinsider.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382673/a2116e.pdf
    • http://files.samniquekahalsey.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969448/ae40cffb.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1633/1172/files/occupational_safety_and_health_standards_for_the_construction_industry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8860/8418/files/subjunctive_form_of_hablar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1454/4808/files/85422988042.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6622/8898/files/xozorunanaruju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2358/9788/files/alphabet_chart_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5251/2918/files/wav_to_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6992/1690/files/lorojivegovimedoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5778/2690/files/10509600048.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9114/9214/files/29941882980.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1028/5990/files/animal_adaptations_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9148/3041/files/93849120799.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_off00006403.bin
50d0db957562691e8bab749d724a7482abc579baa3655f817114a63b93c68b40
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6403 4760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007451.bin
891b18d805780e91a5e29b6a77c8b76a23a08d77cb807b241e1c2d0555652ac6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7451 10432 bytes