Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f6f18ba7a44d6af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 11:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 076392ebb72a9dd05b559326e233eddf SHA-1: 36162d60c73dc3e61d3a891737ffa4244d4a5296 SHA-256: 0f6f18ba7a44d6af3da11dbc6be1eb1ec934ae01298642aaee9911d72fe607fb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, disguised with keywords related to a chemistry textbook. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive document.

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/wix?keyword=chemistry+7th+edition+mcmurry
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4656/8098/files/nipimowawetezumegux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0455/7469/files/48917242276.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/4599/5932/files/certificate_of_proficiency_in_english_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6035/5487/files/tetra_pak_aseptic_packaging.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/565485_10fee8fbf364414c9a730466a28b1bcd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d29c27e147c94f83a57bab91cceceba3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb5a6a_2355483268f24a6784b30b35e76a97b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c4ccc4_aab35e0cdc0f4ec996b7de9b6a7c9cda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cd66ccfa2f12473cb82d7843285f405b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2959/files/sword_coast_adventurer_s_guide_backgrounds.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9005/9176/files/bamokibenix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4351/1703/files/b._e_mechanical_engineering_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4565/0586/files/the_bedford_reader_11th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1916/6119/files/9216305282.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_off0000838e.bin
87949262db5d8a73f37eafc483745d9ce4bbdb0329885e4f9ae27cfe8cd57803
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x838E 5024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000948a.bin
7174740c45169af53841885992e4fcbc09d5e75547acaa88acf36ea79973f8c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x948A 10860 bytes