Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18a2fa04ea36f271…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 05:30:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e75f9af3b07351ae1265a5fc524bee61 SHA-1: 8ab16d7951ec49ba9435609a5db4185272a27151 SHA-256: 18a2fa04ea36f27170bc22ae8259364ec4339955586ffed5d32e29e75e1d7292
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, including a primary link to a redirector service. This suggests a tactic to manipulate search engine results and potentially lead users to malicious content. The presence of numerous external PDF links further supports the SEO link farm heuristic, indicating an attempt to artificially boost search rankings. While no scripts were directly extracted, the embedded links and redirector usage are strong indicators of malicious intent.

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=iiser+aptitude+test+2018+question+paper+pdf
    • http://files.remedysuppliesllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453022/8882996.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0956/3034/files/evermore_alyson_noel_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8445/4817/files/xejiser.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/9102771164.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4575/4792/files/jugurur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9005/9157/files/23853138717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5537/3720/files/72262861920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0077/4307/files/air_force_last_year_paper.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5086/6590/files/37008120910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0795/0495/files/98033439007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0762/2817/files/86974848238.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4873/9740/files/kepopifazavoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7665/7051/files/saxot.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_off0000698a.bin
c98be8487924eef22cd2fe3d9fe651259cf7ac56abea73230ddfdfde60c28a07
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x698A 5584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c99.bin
c9f6fe80ef5cd4784017e8f1b83a0436997fc417640e414b2898e3b5d011d3d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C99 10660 bytes