Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 688cfd8f65a4a453…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-09-04 14:38:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 77c3c7cffd6fa8bf7f553a894b7891cb SHA-1: ca38d229f2b0e0b44e0259781329c994d070421a SHA-256: 688cfd8f65a4a45367f0b9763b99b54ac0a6bf66b637bbe01fc7fb1267092bdf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a resource for solving quadratic equations. The document body and embedded links suggest a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate 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.me/wix?keyword=quadratische+gleichung+l%25C3%25B6sen+ohne+pq+formel
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6243/5739/files/lelares.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6369/7817/files/kojuxusagepinilogebedi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5399/6442/files/florida_new_hire_reporting_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5108/0087/files/vector_addition_lab_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6087/7729/files/brother_status_tamil_songs.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/585b1d_3b33e4d27feb476097065a7a499c2d63.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/affb4a_c5a95b652bf347a7b05bf91545512b6d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/185811_a5bf4bbaf1424e7b9d681df2c09bbf53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4609a_9c9dea1159df4aa6bb71232eff179c08.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1df9ea_66a15f05631b41a5ab1062e11f43fc89.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/912de2_9d0b8309921a4d9eaee35df1ce930fba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e23fbb_cdce839be0554e128e91c428e09a2301.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e79a6_44ca5bcdb2c64566862d34edb0e5688d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fb5067_6325d6bd3317467c80794de5a7ee4806.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ecd213_fd093efa47074608b3db87e40f7a9c2a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a98ecc_7d88e113ab1940bc9c445c9cf2c6f745.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_off00007498.bin
09471a26af7c8fef128bfa5ef683de20c7d1d7271d71ed36f3a4825eb9e4efb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7498 5892 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000883d.bin
df05fd0130910d178d3d100282e68fdf0f85e9ae1cfc07575d9ed32e8b2c5055
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x883D 15216 bytes