Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 602e7c2a94d2d46e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:58:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8aa4879832c8d52376bb06e9fc8bd9e9 SHA-1: 027c96cdab17b58d3482852a696cb968e828e5bf SHA-256: 602e7c2a94d2d46e47fe79968a5b58331ca443066ef3ddf99491b3b8c2c46ff9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a redirector service, which in turn leads to a URL associated with a 'free English speaking course'. This is a common lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself contains numerous external links, suggesting a link farm or redirection attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirector links is a strong indicator 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.com/pify?keyword=rapidex+english+speaking+course+pdf+in+urdu
    • http://files.kirkplayers.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856039/e2f4b852e.pdf
    • http://files.donnadeforbescreates.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871535/1193136.pdf
    • http://files.spaproductswholesale.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682655/206797.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6779/3817/files/5044574112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6295/1074/files/guzumaxibedekowujij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5934/7618/files/discord_get_bot_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6237/0210/files/84387520350.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/15125842299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2419/4468/files/25131012095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8061/4041/files/pagulapaporajepaged.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1646/2229/files/78245582640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0222/5059/files/geletokekegofod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0319/0181/files/77365736733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5113/0785/files/my_favorite_mistake.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_off0000474a.bin
a4af6b063cb7244db5391c38fc9f37a164e33ab492bad63e90b34dddb7a3bfd2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x474A 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a35.bin
24caa0057d9c9fe04a1a6dd335f7cfc5197e5aeffe0ab4a33fb8a816125516ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A35 9996 bytes