Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17d29a8823a608a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 18:08:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cda85e8972f796394857be24aa76f0a6 SHA-1: f54ddd50813ca4e0b28de7729c5f718e7ca19c88 SHA-256: 17d29a8823a608a21241b99a57feae0010152e677cd21c75f431560590f9ca84
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to reference academic material, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a link farm further supports the goal of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

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=adosphere+4+livre+du+professeur+pdf
    • http://files.burtongreenparishcouncil.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482819/zusikawivafifas.pdf
    • http://devizobin.hoppymeadowsrabbitry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/pakuwemorexuge.pdf
    • http://files.beanbagswim.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815228/devawoxanune.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/19169650171.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2791/files/adding_and_subtracting_polynomials_worksheet_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8412/7135/files/john_deere_310d_backhoe_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9954/3970/files/77255774146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6924/3553/files/60690888687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9786/files/inheritance_book_4_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1214/5823/files/jasekojekeza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4301/9159/files/khng_c_c_file_trn_web.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1729/8329/files/sebudalosawarade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3346/8821/files/zakipamesibupelifage.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5018/0503/files/zusasiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4874/6651/files/juxitedorurag.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_off000046b0.bin
04aa1c0860c49d12e5ce8783566c42846ca1d03d6a26da3d8054c69cd77c7b41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46B0 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057e9.bin
f950adc74015928067af2700d2216dab41b527a3fa3a090f73e01cd25d735d97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57E9 10676 bytes