Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1182c2c1d69c072e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-10-17 16:57:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0f47d30545cd5ddaa8c36e2566f41dae SHA-1: 4b713b0746847007763815ae700973995cf84c40 SHA-256: 1182c2c1d69c072e020f771cf3e077b4d516bf58d648ae6bda0524974ea55dff
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one identified as a malicious redirector, and a large number of other PDF links, suggesting a link farm. The document body, though partially garbled, contains text related to 'wbcs main question paper 2020 pdf' and a URL, indicating a lure to download or access content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a download button lure further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.link/123?keyword=wbcs+main+question+paper+2020+pdf
    • https://wekubuzebebam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739705/5872110.pdf
    • https://pigogokeda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857695/353779.pdf
    • https://nanorobudilason.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775181/9253690.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368759/normal_5f8a894b552f1.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366004/normal_5f8940139c8e7.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e120bf81-3124-48d7-81f6-3863d106cba1/wukobopanotofibamudet.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a3c57031-1aab-4364-b1a8-d0ccf6fa78a9/76986645940.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef6cc302-66f8-4358-8935-b5c074cc964e/95698535244.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1db83942-58b2-4ad7-b9e9-caa712af17ca/8468907207.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3473720c-8418-48e7-b98f-e5bc7353c0fb/rasavetarexaganufig.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e6816b54-ea77-4a3e-ab20-793847864844/86144612072.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01a32d91-8633-4972-b771-89f992716611/sowigadawusumoxedewepuxal.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef0b9dc5-617a-41e9-807e-ccc38cc14223/65069230249.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f93ae01-ca8f-4e91-a559-b7ee7fc4b234/waxipuzi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eca3d175-f696-44c3-8582-1b91716f03e3/sexukisazebetamis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6092/6366/files/98301936841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2461/2509/files/bufekosarikojilig.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_off000062d0.bin
d20e464fbefe85214f1f87fd83ba59b04dd76e3d8e2b0b28835f66a581c14a5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62D0 5824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007689.bin
75375c72507d7bda49684b07a86df30a9f7904fba70ff32642ecf42fe5ce1133
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7689 10320 bytes