Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ec8ca927c08210a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 10:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0484dfa86e59017d32cd3434c2ded351 SHA-1: bb83ed92c899eb29098a785195f168e559b61a9d SHA-256: 0ec8ca927c08210ac500423faf2e76a4c995b2fcd652ce85d507faed414bc406
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link disguised as an answer key, which redirects to a malicious URL identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, indicative of a link farm, with many pointing to potentially benign Shopify URLs but also including unknown domains. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=uniform+circular+motion+answer+key
    • http://files.supremelyaddlecoved.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738837/12998283.pdf
    • http://files.hernsbergerlawfirm.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379594/tojidefijarutadube.pdf
    • http://files.amplifytalentsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871643/f520387d4204.pdf
    • http://files.ashleyinsurance.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379803/zarak-jafiwuv-liroxaririfag.pdf
    • http://buzan.mimiandhillshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453109/bafebepum-lisukepufakid-rinid.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4950/7223/files/c_programming_basics_in_bangla.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6707/1894/files/20873050447.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4913/9880/files/figijiradoxinudakajegaxud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7365/9290/files/school_activities_vocabulary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6125/6096/files/25221669761.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4779/2288/files/acpc_mba_booklet_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3870/1728/files/oblivion_realistic_leveling.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9161/6153/files/90896691070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5802/6903/files/getusenidumozitudana.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_off00006d3f.bin
8697d666fa8d01316c3240175fec2ba0ec5148a740b80519bb69755ae33767ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D3F 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f2c.bin
0064d7017b35299927157c4236be71e73ab308d6f61d9026963d9d3b5272f47a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F2C 12920 bytes