Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74f10c3fcea71e27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-09-05 17:58:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2020b7d1be84064052f6282ad35d1d83 SHA-1: 50597aa5709c6ed2e79128a75869cd00061a3970 SHA-256: 74f10c3fcea71e2792258b49eb58ecaf7037afebbc921a839db1e1bf0e40f7fa
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link that redirects to a malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a 'pathology slides request form' lure, aligning with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.club/wix?keyword=pathology+slides+request+form
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7124/2391/files/para_que_sirve_el_budesonida_formoterol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/8796/1752/files/bhai_phota_status_video.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5312/9629/files/austin_mahone_dirty_work_song.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b9365_9eb0a6bc52d84406a49ad1937c6d3df9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c250_45da4c75883d4e9b8a6e2b2262347324.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/296484_dd5691a7be084803a8136f7847e7ca85.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c46c8a_91c39dabb04c4ab485ab4dacbe327701.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ba2c19_c75c86bb7a3b4ddd9c5e4a705af87c81.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9757e7_d62b9dc0b27d4b0aa225039200921e76.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8ded60dd0c584327880d28d0f3112874.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_off0000652c.bin
17a2165f04992660e2f38d51736a859d7af47b788bb43481585385fa2b0fe15c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x652C 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077de.bin
b5461b7f3b74f757a2666baf81003adbf239b3d49ef2378bf0bb3776f31f9e65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77DE 10016 bytes