Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18fb151eb89b98e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 05:54:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9285784ded81386f5fead778f8c67a4b SHA-1: 700d90fef925eb5848f79b366149f182346a8353 SHA-256: 18fb151eb89b98e7006d281cb0c3a5920d5aac88eb3b0c315d79643ce7ee1101
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.

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.com/wix?keyword=100+book+challenge+reading+log+sheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8469/1094/files/happy_birthday_balloons_vector_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5471/0427/files/university_of_colorado_boulder_campus_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1851/0745/files/kolexetajol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1658/files/xamixesebimidudaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7100/files/34893867336.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a76634_cede8904e9a44183aa01204436123c84.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f5b72_b672ce923984443c8208012d02c1c617.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_662dcab5d3c64ee5bc019c453fc2bef6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce77c6_39acffe7f67447f6a0f9d0950b1d3eca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea9bdf_23ecb2ba3d5c4680862e653473843d3d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5ecbdfdbc4174a6387c801116fd50566.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0fdb6d_1123a88bcfca4cda95692c7aaed593af.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_off00007a5a.bin
521d1d374a25a6745c752c3ca566049a0630cdff9595d51ce4c1fe0415caeb54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A5A 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c2d.bin
94993f496c4f5be6352c956defa3fa85a7e668ee55a7fe154b49d08bbbf242e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C2D 10160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000aeff.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEFF 4324 bytes