Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7483c5067207b4e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 12:33:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: be791b5948fb922c856d422164e88ce8 SHA-1: fe2d7bb2f35274b0b491658aa731713eb8c56db6 SHA-256: 7483c5067207b4e5964ca222c701958f54ecf65536e991d659f5a1602551556f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links and text that direct users to a malicious redirector URL, disguised as IELTS practice tests. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is designed as a link farm, with one critical link pointing to known malicious infrastructure. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence suggest a malicious intent 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.ru/pify?keyword=ielts+listening+online+practice+tests+with+answers
    • http://doravevi.houghtonmetz.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874679/powifaxegezafe-xedupopolinokag-lusimuzaki.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6467/1909/files/trapianto_cellule_staminali_emopoietiche.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6244/2661/files/tojafakalozufasakiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/69918417241.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7430/4662/files/directv_bossier_city_channel_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9761/0657/files/77565025718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7436/3048/files/lathe_di_chadar_remix_video_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7990/1085/files/87176593958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8933/7256/files/single_dial_buttress_thread_form_gauge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2891/4074/files/dafido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7354/4093/files/aide_mmoire_mathmatique_de_l_ingnieur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6649/1042/files/subanajebef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6122/9206/files/pakizeromagupowuduv.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_off00007612.bin
8d28c0ecc5397d80f16b1c1240b826dabcca2930d109989fe25d12efaadb6eaa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7612 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000087dc.bin
ba2f38f9fba4deecf9de765a1d3b71b5042e68dc0741ceaaa86286ba79bab840
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87DC 10468 bytes