Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ec02d0ee76cbcaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 04:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c735d8d6156137e7e47e66ed5817bad4 SHA-1: 0b44deb18adfc29f438a7663b9817fbd63e9067b SHA-256: 0ec02d0ee76cbcaa59409925b2f89ef4012acbcd1b976c06e72f6c5b87e7cb7a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'student book pdf' and includes the malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, supporting the attack pattern of luring users to malicious sites.

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=bebop+1+student%2527+s+book+pdf
    • http://fanubenil.commitment-health.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695569/2956107.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/1834/8712/files/ghas_mandi_ki_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8669/0969/files/answers_to_crossword_puzzles_with_friends.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9499/0243/files/21510805500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5467/8687/files/44353752733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6936/5654/files/seluluvazizuje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1547/8176/files/suluzexuzab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5893/8531/files/auxiliar_administrativo_del_estado_temario_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2768/5788/files/mazurowikik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5542/4423/files/90869255206.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/25668779603.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_off000044bb.bin
1d28f11103de1c7c519f76554c7a1f65a8595ee8aabebe31ce65007a32c97beb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44BB 5036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055fb.bin
24548ae1486a39b2a8883383f38b2b7585db58328676e9f4e2a8e259edf3f1ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55FB 9660 bytes