Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15c503d0ac215c37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 19:31:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bda8d175329a16aee8f8c9b5ceedf2dc SHA-1: cc6507d0038cfa54260eea5eb257cd27dae7b70a SHA-256: 15c503d0ac215c37f077eaa611a390e61e13f574baf713ff95b63a0a4f348857
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one prominent URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a PDF document related to 'power amplifier classification'. The presence of multiple external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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/pify?keyword=power+amplifier+classification+pdf
    • http://files.jennifermackenziedunbar.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871618/83fe6197f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3525/5203/files/16932424938.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/5380/4694/files/a_level_psychology_notes_aqa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7701/6483/files/88740526708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9017/3333/files/76650117831.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9453/1484/files/papazulujinudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6082/0133/files/47065194146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2048/3751/files/tituxofiwosudogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8821/files/renowavoxuvilidinematuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2971/5354/files/captain_marvel_comic_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9885/5840/files/peter_drucker_management_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9263/1962/files/zikegole.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_off000058cc.bin
0c50b1be5564d55987dfb23ebcf19ece7205b1205e64b8a07dbab9a409b53a52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58CC 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b15.bin
421fdcf68edb3970f838f595db70fd10d90d5a3b121ec1e1c092243242e79d46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B15 9744 bytes