Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d9bd93a0e195f49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 06:18:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2fb391974a6123ead54383160d1daf37 SHA-1: 63efd5de493650199997497eb185aae68108c767 SHA-256: 5d9bd93a0e195f49ea743781386dd42c5f4395af0bc537a2a118b81900a7b9a8
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a 'worksheet answer key' lure, which aligns with the malicious URL's keyword parameter. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of many external links suggests a link farm or redirection tactic.

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=carbon+cycle+game+worksheet+answer+key
    • http://files.lampoonprops.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739222/db413929fd7.pdf
    • http://novifizaw.hannahstainedglass.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739038/e8211a912.pdf
    • http://files.mahutetrading.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397964/pusixumexiwer.pdf
    • http://buval.stellardobermans.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379945/4228592.pdf
    • http://rofop.paleodietevolved.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874359/zizafekex-timitesewaxu-bisigat-lilomavaxip.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5938/8316/files/hole-_flanging_process_on_thin_sheet_metal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2461/2508/files/instagram_highlights_template_black.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9979/8166/files/polynuclear_aromatic_hydrocarbons.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4115/3439/files/nesevibax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2016/3999/files/eee_3307_lab_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4446/8896/files/calendario_azteca_original.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8129/3221/files/89594754562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zavokalozetaxolemo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/57896919986.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5036/0232/files/83689789963.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_off00005efc.bin
50b6f83a1d25dd1a4d7f1f9b782764fe23cc9d6c67d0e7de4e4c4780ea3962fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EFC 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071a9.bin
b3135bb6e73ccce9a9eb75f8fc385bf2cf2b2da27ed64b9071ab809bec0670ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71A9 10668 bytes