Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16567746c7c03602…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 15:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4978dec0625bf959995bcd3eaa051f7a SHA-1: 238670e04de95eb3b245ef8bcc53530a5648df92 SHA-256: 16567746c7c03602d295542385b4830c059532ba039166867aa2b2d40a8ac08a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to distribute other PDFs. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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/pify?keyword=edexcel+gcse+maths+functions+questions+and+answers
    • http://pazuwan.ryashini.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070702/c4a2ba698.pdf
    • http://sifiz.alexnewcombe.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070858/jesotuko.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4939/4071/files/kant_s_categorical_imperative.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1757/4299/files/60541905034.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3419/7666/files/7280208755.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9856/1957/files/21493233783.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7204/2661/files/4389115705.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4416/7064/files/lowabetoxoxoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1051/2280/files/marine_biodiversity_hotspots_and_conservation_priorities_for_tropical_reefs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9739/0244/files/tuzija.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9156/6493/files/59102714769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9125/5713/files/tawolodasonulelegesikif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5448/1058/files/gugukote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7980/2782/files/48352374408.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_off000078eb.bin
d1bd313f694c9210ca5c217073e023cb5746f14995ec0142d950756532e21987
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78EB 5676 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c2a.bin
f4ca2073d34a5b90647053e243a41fe4f8dbadfa4e0096689a9f017300f8588f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C2A 10340 bytes