Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f54389871d09850…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-07-28 13:09:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cab4a1788966db0a0c0eaa2c49fc9a20 SHA-1: 07ac43fabdeea442b591166dc6bbe3bdc103a75a SHA-256: 0f54389871d0985044db5b0a05616c01bebddcf00d8146b4ca1d5ba091b16883
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, including a redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to lead the user to malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of embedded URLs further supports this. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for educational materials.

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=fact+and+opinion+worksheets
    • http://files.5starpdrllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968968/7376804.pdf
    • http://files.alexgraner.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379833/2334602.pdf
    • http://files.drgordonself.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775921/veluwisipuguja_kezitela_bikixokezed.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1674/8190/files/vanigutilitilokezaxososa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3591/8489/files/69350344313.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5521/0905/files/26571445893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1095/6196/files/tafonifobofefupur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1908/2651/files/91661156164.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9060/8285/files/32815190623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5901/2006/files/59376863035.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9291/1007/files/vogovopesifab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1420/7134/files/96473761002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0814/8127/files/9945572705.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0193/0143/files/26229372321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8845/2515/files/badiwiw.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_off00006b91.bin
c7fac2ac73975fdc69b7a2ec3881134566d359f07b168a92937e78e7006efcca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B91 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007caf.bin
6e00c2fae7abc30873c44fecb75cba79d03eae6eee9872d33b539bc3bda6aaea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CAF 9964 bytes