Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 694dceab1e59b3ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:08:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7c005974f73142e22d5c152cd2ca14a3 SHA-1: a9ad7b712dcddcf1f9c324697568098609e9c21c SHA-256: 694dceab1e59b3ff89b5b2be8e32e355bf18c8fcd685a1481f8c708d37bd65b4
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for 'legal super annual report 2018', and the presence of many external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the SE_CALLBACK_LURE heuristic indicates a phishing or scam context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=legal+super+annual+report+2018
    • http://files.newsongseattle.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775080/zukadivu_sepena.pdf
    • http://files.weneedaircon.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453132/1260902.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2171/2034/files/contesting_a_parking_ticket_sample_letter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8176/0935/files/4528546370.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5253/files/binomial_theorem_examples_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4828/7912/files/sixth_sense_technology_seminar_report_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/laravinekajamaziwobare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5788/2022/files/feminazumoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9216/5279/files/zagudobuxonuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8708/5220/files/gijoroki.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_off00004772.bin
95b6458b7425afa9b45733ffd2b253471f60ea070a9ea04d3ae1b3caedaae3ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4772 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a10.bin
efa8017e206b3264ff4d31de811cd0c13b4dde140ac36e6fd1c0e477e7749c6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A10 10020 bytes