Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18518928cfbb4aa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:53:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2767203d937505a6c8c88ee34b38c93d SHA-1: 867454f08a2d906f475a059d6414f76455335f1e SHA-256: 18518928cfbb4aa48369e5898bda424b54db1091688e8ce5f50d08ac51506ee7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for academic or book-related content, aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious links. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the assessment of a phishing or redirection attack.

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/pify?keyword=asce+journal+of+structural+engineering+author+guidelines
    • http://files.blessingoftheemeraldcoast.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437806/49af5e8766e.pdf
    • http://files.baycountrycrabbingsupply.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437085/bb5f6fd740ef65b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4176/7072/files/bailey_and_love_surgery_24th_edition_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1705/1039/files/the_stranger_albert_camus_matthew_ward.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7400/9753/files/anabolisme_protein.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2174/6847/files/kedorug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2568/9758/files/al_qur_an_dan_terjemahannya.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7289/6678/files/pozawapuxefad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6241/9863/files/40578632371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8344/0030/files/diwotaperex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0906/3582/files/bukotenudakowopoza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7046/2883/files/zefisuvaxilivopoza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8386/6018/files/7281997131.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6645/7254/files/9438364165.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_off00004d58.bin
1546c0721470fd81e49e8e2cccde7fadadcf8a40e3b63bd5c270b83397ab68d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D58 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f7e.bin
c569b3a65f0baecb33dc89a884040ec9f0ae8c9045e915e93caf543de0eabc66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F7E 10200 bytes