Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1755c323c11af7eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 21:26:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1ae7b5e10f3996078e342f83f84700d8 SHA-1: b055228da0d7dba0936dd916ff19d9b0a7c7bd1d SHA-256: 1755c323c11af7eb28a84afccb8e82e062049cd17ff506fd18310fa965490453
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it points to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a research paper, which is then redirected. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of outbound links, 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.com/pify?keyword=action+research+in+english+reading+comprehension+pdf
    • http://files.backnbalance.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398308/galatekapigi-jizigevusar-fugoxudefaj.pdf
    • http://files.growingbolderfitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738614/mabereduzidiva.pdf
    • http://files.designology101.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406344/f9d40a.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6208/4262/files/xepuki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1509/2894/files/wniosek_ceidg_1_wypeniony.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3490/0637/files/budixelujiwixawagadepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9229/3272/files/raguribenodiza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4504/1814/files/70494162840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8911/6836/files/93024896082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2562/0374/files/50177662152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7273/2836/files/voltaire_philosophy_of_history.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4311/9516/files/pearson_understanding_and_using_english_grammar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8346/3832/files/lixatovegid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/lodisesemusozegosufe.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_off0000884c.bin
d55adf8b2f6212f04725540242d937633fbfcb1eaf1228646c98c63e58f88f0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x884C 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009b02.bin
022e73cb8f05bfb0606496b35f579c92e1c9b887941a1136cc4a4247d426451d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B02 10076 bytes