Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f1b9d7642a1b2c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 04:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fea830325b9e42b08858234aa2c32416 SHA-1: 6693cda99e0a028d5452bd5bc320fb9af94a4161 SHA-256: 7f1b9d7642a1b2c12ab104a8c10423685a2286b905f472bca3a79c1befb0a847
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded links that direct users to a known malicious redirector URL, disguised as a search result for a textbook. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure includes a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via deceptive links.

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=conceptual+physics+12th+edition+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d55797_67532572a1294674bbdd88d403ecf293.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a0016_1db569824f5b47dc8189da56e0c87eed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/930050_5e9573eb34cc47489eca97dd95f6e0fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7bc36a9f5104486ca7fc52d0f3f10884.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b6edda_15bc26a181e54da4bc1ec46de1c95fbe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99afdc_a7971b8e10bb4391bcf5d6ad9604a99c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77d535_efaaf762a83e44e0b5c1a9ab1f879532.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b9a87_1a18466929be45ac9d110f2aed8b3ade.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5899d5_04fa775a20ce42b3b32daf5acaf06451.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/735189_1bff444f607742b980d1dea7eb60b413.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a49289018dd84a7f88afcfbded0bdc9e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4a001_c17a61d87a194f76ad4fb1d915c16d37.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/2033782386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5244/9444/files/58104110074.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_off0000793b.bin
8fe4ab4ef3525b9855f46432a210185926f2c8faf4e7c937c992f7e594e787cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x793B 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b6d.bin
ac03ae1c53ebd04023188122e4c81f717643085ebb9f3f860d8e82e8bb6aa28c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B6D 11048 bytes