Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 118c680c5085fe90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 02:43:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d1fa6bbc385ce324414b5c0f60e64cd0 SHA-1: 47377e02000de86d00c9e3887a411920006ccd04 SHA-256: 118c680c5085fe90f60ceefbcdd2c5b711b80f4a79a36f236568d17913934d50
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for educational content. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of similar links were generated, likely for SEO poisoning to attract victims.

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/wix?keyword=slader+james+stewart+calculus+8th+edition
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3241/1298/files/95960057067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6534/files/86333824739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9655/6191/files/53918847258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4385/4235/files/cambridge_english_advanced_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7854/1722/files/rukemokaloregikefiwal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5680/2461/files/kaththi_theme_music_tamilanda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9536/6559/files/48079247572.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a817384f4a3c4bf39c1c9ee3421b6721.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a29c0173d06040b0b845b4705acdf5d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_03f04a6c3653475ea7fac5a45a2e9289.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_efefcd1dc6be4d60a5485c2ced8d6de7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ea8bb_7374134eb9314ff19925e80dfef719cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eaf48f_4cc7f5daf1404dd5b7dd69eb98583ce9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3b47cb_fc043a2fa153485baa92c0966a04fc16.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bd09c383339a480bb46b21b5c0a4a224.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_off00005cd7.bin
e230ed244e2949814f13a021da319a36c3c7ba9f7948f379f74eed5c781fd176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CD7 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fe9.bin
7d9f0d96e3c5d19cee4f904179a700a5d283c5876dde6778772c31183c4d645f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE9 14092 bytes