Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18346518784074b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.9 KB Created: 2020-11-19 01:54:46 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f680d0dc17df73216afa66a94a4333a9 SHA-1: 117ed13d2023ff83c236f2f0cbb30786231229e2 SHA-256: 18346518784074b9b73ca7e8ae836ea473eacdfbabd8e89b1d21bcf3a6fd8aa4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, masquerading as academic resources. One of the embedded links, 'https://traffmen.ru/123?utm_term=mathematics+for+engineers+and+scientists+by+alan+jeffrey+pdf', is identified as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://traffmen.ru/123?utm_term=mathematics+for+engineers+and+scientists+by+alan+jeffrey+pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4408471/normal_5fa77d8692881.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366620/normal_5f9fae2291ab4.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366015/normal_5f8c5047087b5.pdf
    • https://rimususoku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587725/4afc6a4933877d9.pdf
    • https://firedisivimi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969818/5558271.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4372955/normal_5fa4bb01686db.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409827/normal_5f98ecfb76885.pdf
    • https://jubuxazule.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585976/supuruloduniwedin.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384655/normal_5faf407a7ca91.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369328/normal_5fb517aa0fb9d.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4394072/normal_5f9e6b917e37e.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ragejufa/rewanijex.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3739e636-4108-4f8b-9b72-53c7b4961060/28164691158.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a870.bin
e75d9edf815c8ec8c52cd799bc8b30ddfb4316a5592331fc3ebfec66757688d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA870 3804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b5de.bin
8a80f6e50b3ddb265924c488c16494c0bf570b5c391a6c57d03c28f917a087c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5DE 5892 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c9d3.bin
cebf1bb792a9ed214867ef3bbc895fbcf80ec71408e520ce76a5e1b3d8d125ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D3 9428 bytes