Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7956826fb8132341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 07:46:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8f259992422a75c8584a8f1e4941a89e SHA-1: a35656104c419c2e349d8a5ea4fd67e90dc270a2 SHA-256: 7956826fb8132341316d3f35afdab08afedd336a97f0e6e38db8e167038ef1c6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for 'afcat syllabus and exam pattern pdf'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or SEO manipulation.

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=afcat+syllabus+and+exam+pattern+pdf
    • http://files.jrmiller.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453188/gezus.pdf
    • http://files.evandusenportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454355/bf82dedefb0f4.pdf
    • http://files.patriciakimerer.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682790/7329851.pdf
    • http://files.babymoonshine.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776536/32a183060.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1778/8830/files/fejabirug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6318/0438/files/3943202117.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3464/6440/files/volov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7689/4372/files/46272056681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9426/8320/files/tupozeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8843/7655/files/16538141015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7937/6798/files/nibujesusigusodulula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6756/2391/files/advanced_after_effects_tutorials.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4410/1544/files/dudebuzepif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9051/8940/files/gumugaledolikadoraleximir.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_off00007054.bin
92e55caa91676e7ce1050c58ab6e1b27a7e826b95317b70e187719ea20c495cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7054 5600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008358.bin
81c6dbc8c47c055d59a2741f7793bfe20956dcbff42612354ecde6a8de29925e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8358 10684 bytes