Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f1801d763214d24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4040f16443f52d2234c5475158fdf979 SHA-1: 42803b3d29f9020303433aff39215d96b2ea004e SHA-256: 0f1801d763214d244c7a8cfb5f0746ae03a87107816bb17017b11367f9d23b16
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing a malicious redirector link and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or phishing attempts.

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/wb?keyword=two%20way%20tables%20worksheets%20tes
    • http://files.engiellepaguican.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712324/486824.pdf
    • http://files.rockintmeadows.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776374/4a8efabd.pdf
    • http://files.studio339.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775831/nofuxenaxadel.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3720/0277/files/o_autismo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9074/8316/files/79681589921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2621/8134/files/55139294353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5058/2684/files/learn_english_for_spanish_speakers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8573/files/tedagixasoduguvofegapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7007/0690/files/daxamibemapujadoti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5122/1146/files/wexuvafalupovev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6911/0432/files/98748109716.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3461/3659/files/ecg_rhythm_quiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1334/0312/files/60636940087.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8523/3318/files/auxin_journal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2041/1289/files/tudetimaduniwuze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1767/8497/files/tamil_script_letters.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_off00004de3.bin
520bf6402eb038a66780183ec41d01fb5e3b911216ba761db4111995f27033f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DE3 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f5a.bin
2a6b4849c2df661856a81dfc13a08c21d6957967e268e79cf3cfb22b60e33980
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F5A 10484 bytes