Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15baabe0877a5b0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2020-09-23 12:27:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7cf297e85303d1cb4055ded06d19ce02 SHA-1: cf0a52c4333469dc509b1a68ca9bc934ab15f54e SHA-256: 15baabe0877a5b0fd03829f247694ec7272a93f77046dce3f8bffa6848346ba4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain text related to educational worksheets, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of multiple external PDF links also indicates a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content.

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=cell+membrane+images+worksheet+answers+biology+corner
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://2afbb574-d1dd-41fa-840f-33368810c0ed.filesusr.com/ugd/77d535_e2cd528c3b0f4c20b79eacc493a01406.pdf?index=true
    • https://73338a0e-3402-4a1d-98b6-ab859cd71f1a.filesusr.com/ugd/18ee90_462db916ca454459bb405ddf47419246.pdf?index=true
    • https://2451fb4b-b0fc-4f37-bd41-1440d4b2f55a.filesusr.com/ugd/6d59ab_b7563ab49e854287bb118ede9d96b600.pdf?index=true
    • https://9558e0c6-a11b-4516-bedc-05c166727ac0.filesusr.com/ugd/ff2e72_e3b6d5247fb2476eadbdd4026615fc67.pdf?index=true
    • https://ccca35f4-4a95-4fff-8195-452a925a615a.filesusr.com/ugd/41f880_705fbb8bb1f04e4890bf5c2bc744e117.pdf?index=true
    • https://d97901e6-d8f2-4adf-9e8a-c86053e5ad6f.filesusr.com/ugd/12daa7_7ed122d3981f4513a42ccc084b190b76.pdf?index=true
    • https://bbdf1b81-4e7c-42f1-869a-b5d4ffe9e7cc.filesusr.com/ugd/96768c_7207344f82b34e33a8733f5896974adb.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8329/1029/files/a_level_sociology_aqa_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/78985131446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7134/0698/files/rubisuwogu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0611/3430/files/xawawegibekam.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_off0000f17f.bin
c92d55c4d4b69e8fc543854bbcc4d7e9312318c77144f7e9164d10f15d761ac1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17F 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010425.bin
17bedc3f7de60915ff2a23bfce8e026eb42f0aa4425b7076626e22a158904ff1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10425 13636 bytes