Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 170427c5fd70b024…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-03 14:00:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aea3f982bd480c8b7dfa6e421254d462 SHA-1: 5fbea1ac05bf552088db0c6e69be3f17cef4fb64 SHA-256: 170427c5fd70b024882cd09c0d753a1489653c8572ca05b5078a8f09efe29644
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, masquerading as educational content. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms that the primary link leads to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute 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.com/pify?keyword=maths+textbook+pdf+grade+12
    • http://files.tbikesbekkevoort.be/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637679/859856.pdf
    • http://files.positivefocushawaii.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815015/2521850.pdf
    • http://files.northhamptonvfd.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408017/boxenatim.pdf
    • http://files.carnivoradesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969440/5866389.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6630/8246/files/suzuki_quadrunner_250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7789/4293/files/6294052834.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8312/8214/files/suvukupisawanuvaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6799/8362/files/yari_launcher_gungeon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9371/2286/files/11957211603.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1700/2405/files/graco_pack_n_play_instruction_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8562/6520/files/91752107139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7737/8972/files/juxapezenozalazifixuwixos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0645/2127/files/68024040724.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_off000055d1.bin
afabdb82c25ca8a38d6d94d59c1e59ac70892997afad1df3dd39e5e7092a4b99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55D1 5732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006965.bin
4b9c3ec3329691b97cf76e917b6884e55ac40c47056477a9790f04be3ca3a2bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6965 10272 bytes