Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 796dd95de6bad47c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-09-03 11:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 45e3218c119c2dfc97f06f02a5fbe9f8 SHA-1: 95c10eddde942775306fc68a925d0abef7bb5876 SHA-256: 796dd95de6bad47cba303e19abf3d6888fdbecf3eb55fe78c58cce58308e7f10
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, disguised as a free anti-plagiarism checker. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and the embedded URL strongly indicate this malicious intent. The PDF also contains a large number of links to external PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic.

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.link/wix?keyword=free++anti+plagiarism+checker
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3464/files/17622604600.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1435/7151/files/amebiasis_intestinal_gpc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3032/3101/files/persuasive_speech_outline_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9504/0924/files/android_app_development_tutorial_beginner_video.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b56239_48e3437317ba4e8499fe486b9d0a0c5f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc14e4_8f3c6c5d48184e76bb7b515656e560a7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1f2646_3feb9e04cf90425bbc162447d7fdc2b5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7460/0598/files/historia_de_la_administracion_libro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6544/2455/files/metro_pcs_phone_payment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2459/6642/files/javipoja.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_e1d422c71f6d41629cfcb9ef666863e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1c05f_190296288a9040749e7606ee15263e38.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f00786febb774dfcb39f79a1bc40f0bc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50c35f_b347e0196e1149958ad423cdf722d05c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76b6de_64d716a5929c431ebcce4041424d8cb3.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_off00006570.bin
9a37a0c49fa7375261d3bb20cfbc9c7ae1344b12f71c0b6bddd7c2404f546b2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6570 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007789.bin
1a1be0fd83f6cae1ffd3ab6162da5a2cc1da8094ba74cc781a0d64f9c7963497
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7789 10344 bytes