Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1815cc1984d70c99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:39:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fc18c7ba51ced0753895f777d960c10e SHA-1: db4e5914644f5fef2a58023edde5455edcc89d55 SHA-256: 1815cc1984d70c99feaaca60ed51599a0f0369cb6f6788830a17c38c85aecf9c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with the primary one directing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL and appears to be a lure for educational content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests SEO poisoning or spamming tactics.

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/wb?keyword=word%20picture%20recognition%20worksheets
    • http://files.melanievanzyl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413485/retetuwe.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0310/1863/files/xogapidesofesasasaziru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0670/5316/files/58990689683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4872/2851/files/7506479437.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0545/1160/files/91646281453.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0905/6668/files/malicious_sample_github.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3531/9702/files/attestation_employeur_cpam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0361/7173/files/mafebolemeramufixef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9276/3039/files/ikea_catalogue_cuisine_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5538/0630/files/sony_android_tv_4k_mkv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9597/2256/files/2014_ford_focus_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9443/4202/files/79540845543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8281/7441/files/arnold_blueprint_to_cuts_phase_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1195/6126/files/74774381380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5056/3734/files/60954874400.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_off0000681a.bin
519e36eaab63e8044a8f193469f989815cc52df6fd23b8def93d8cf6541d0749
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x681A 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a20.bin
43d87d778cc7126a1a1413a4bfc1451cd581aa4a986dd425d562f145f54f49dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A20 10192 bytes