Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 786637202269d772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 16:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 57aa4fda77545061fe600ad285cbd3e9 SHA-1: 5af5bcb05f7b2bb0989f764418631f276ab4dda4 SHA-256: 786637202269d772580444cf32443c0c2e9ff5d1621493e14a3f220b6eb44800
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, which is disguised as a "basics of computer mcqs pdf". The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or create a link farm, potentially for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malicious 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/wix?keyword=basics+of+computer+mcqs+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohit
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4f64df21bf014d7ab3f38b55f712d9d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cfa91a_8ef36c4a85cb49968626886c02f13866.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e3a080b41d5e40d0879a4276ef87e7a5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4887/6702/files/974973739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6904/6935/files/ffxiv_shirogane_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8632/1566/files/14839960388.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5174/5442/files/nibuxudukenegumejituvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2177/0657/files/wefuresazumekor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8611/7032/files/baldur_s_gate_2_cheats.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3ad839911c374cd790358e18ebb86812.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b52961_cd052529df164c319c2f596f62c61ddd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c3eb8f7263154a14a9f727e1936c92c3.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008e4c.bin
f1501b1bf818f3b6a4d36979af330d213789b0624dbef67d1e8b830c6ffd8920
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E4C 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a0a6.bin
ff5555ebd3a1b656d0e168cbaf29ca915033de1988c0c0bbe338cdd33dd93fe1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0A6 2560 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000abbe.bin
cf33b4b5861903666d1daa6135ce16b6faac1a91e9fdaa2a08b13278b03e5c56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xABBE 10540 bytes