Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b695d8c1e055440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 09:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d4703682f49e1c06faf60e74eac323d6 SHA-1: 10ee3039bc1cfb720b322cd74be6c8abea0d97ab SHA-256: 5b695d8c1e0554409c0aa842d6b8e52c61ea637a5920dfb2dee8eab113cb2b6d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, and is flagged by heuristics as a malicious redirector and a link farm. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to an academic paper answer key. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign.

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=cds+2019+english+paper+answer+key
    • http://files.simixairconditionercoating.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815277/f7e5e25cb526a4d.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zupapinited.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4754/1146/files/52802611766.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/zazat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3966/1986/files/50337672353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5199/1719/files/kegem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5381/8790/files/88646269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6331/1520/files/9017187275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3803/8423/files/vumivevopenetiparetati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3846/6467/files/resivikowanexitenuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6851/3686/files/urban_survival_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6440/9764/files/12367988471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8986/0510/files/howto_get_anime_back_on_vyond_github.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4214/3388/files/fonabalozinegokuselo.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_off00006ff2.bin
22ada3bc1216b36e2b4c6dde31afa3f349ddeca210e442caac5a29fbff701764
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF2 5868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000083f3.bin
9b86a829e452e5b0202e2d8a829bffdeeba9a59eab0e4e96f81ecce37518767f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83F3 14664 bytes