Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4586a939f4d603ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-11-06 10:47:41 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fe720654ef2e03b899e1881b6c23554f SHA-1: 79cae0bebf1ac1599fe9bc0116f74161d3e817fa SHA-256: 4586a939f4d603eecc18389bd8e94f2ff1608a5c5f6f513cf1e1288cd7965ffc
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, disguised as printable math worksheets, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO spamming tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of outbound links points to a malicious intent to drive traffic to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://traffine.ru/123?keyword=cat+in+the+hat+math+worksheets+printable
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380876/normal_5f945f02ae1ff.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369664/normal_5f88a5a503b8a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366647/normal_5fa407484f962.pdf
    • https://tuboxivodase.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134387713/fimas.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374359/normal_5f94efe8d5e44.pdf
    • https://sutogibigasoju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070189/8043838.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376849/normal_5f9e8f755c9a8.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411682/normal_5f99e7e98085f.pdf
    • https://bedizegoresupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379398/lulodegoner.pdf
    • https://wanuwoziburake.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458428/betofuzibikiruvi.pdf
    • https://juporolo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380745/84683d2356.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bidivo/44085226236.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_off000062e2.bin
523aa37cd827884f50daedeead9ba8c15cd8eb12e8ac5cd33c933a4c3c3a0858
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62E2 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000749d.bin
2e9e367d53f879ac0652ce558fa99f527d2dddbfc8fd0db8aa7bbe74e081cbfb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x749D 10720 bytes