Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 746a5d6e937437d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 951c8b15a60f2463dd0c0977684fda52 SHA-1: e1dcea71578de1d346fe155288e859b9fb67fe51 SHA-256: 746a5d6e937437d01f959cc2a42588d135924088970525d4a10d561ffa5743bc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with the primary one leading to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a book PDF, which is likely a lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate malicious intent, likely related to SEO spam or phishing campaigns.

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=english+alphabet+writing+book+pdf
    • http://files.sandytoessociety.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712127/83e28df9a.pdf
    • http://files.theplaceofdreamers.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814166/pipel-sewowudin-runanedenovi.pdf
    • http://files.nightoutowl.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606393/bivagelepokixas-zasetef.pdf
    • http://files.shawtyreservices.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682134/47227e3.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0360/0283/files/vajawobibuwikawazun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4953/4111/files/72469471459.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0227/7542/files/poruvofetibeteb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1676/5088/files/dawoko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1388/8405/files/miruxilesopovebotobetika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8699/5863/files/68705485636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7988/4186/files/fundamentals_of_analytical_chemistry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9417/2058/files/62734352965.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4311/9527/files/kifomavidavut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6044/5855/files/34023555858.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1510/9797/files/4086376531.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_off00004f7a.bin
21a694b911fc63b2e81c96ab3f81f09ddf14e028ea9e6e7bc0f845faf9593905
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F7A 5556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006264.bin
c870e6b256feab65944d632e089a8e1931a52a079d2bad2f9bc6c05b225deb08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6264 9572 bytes