Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7215348b52584b95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 05:25:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 43d99e28539a5b108e2943e12e858583 SHA-1: 18c5498435efc9e0632e4018a39dac3791c1fa33 SHA-256: 7215348b52584b95d395df5a3552d0df1fcf0cde35418543efc3338e6d7a6317
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=makkar+ielts+speaking+may+2020+pdf`. It also contains a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=makkar+ielts+speaking+may+2020+pdf
    • http://files.mhecblacon.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437351/vasak.pdf
    • http://files.livingrawbygrace.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815095/mivona-resunafusixokiv-xozamabe.pdf
    • http://files.brenarcarchitects.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740486/zisege-didibasodewu.pdf
    • http://files.jwesleyfoundation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437276/ae31d16fcb7.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4292/0869/files/kofijukijunex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9650/6521/files/dark_souls_100_checklist.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2528/5798/files/90559175717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3123/2674/files/29970287554.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7111/0308/files/how_does_vrchat_make_money.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8423/4396/files/tusijodozunarale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5467/7662/files/ruwelekefugujebelidelokej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8672/5795/files/44000367112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1642/1539/files/41445280786.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6581/9814/files/85121055122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5540/7511/files/xokejapu.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_off000073b2.bin
ff83609523e1223e36d4d3064f21628a6067e13bb45f0b859e9d813e1095b198
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B2 5804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000877e.bin
b367f6c8937f6a37fb3a329808851d142cb875dd767edc6c5b7afa746d9fe214
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x877E 10012 bytes