Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0a150f9ec10a302…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 16:12:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 192366bd0ae53c6ef43c3f2a83ab2610 SHA-1: 58e4c198631c163450365e953f0590b548d0cb38 SHA-256: a0a150f9ec10a3026c2aec261dd4e46735ee8fd5b917e881f44b9d873865c916
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'AP edition calculus 10e pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. The presence of a malicious redirector link indicates an attempt to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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.com/pify?keyword=ap+edition+calculus+10e+pdf
    • http://files.five16filmfestival.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398334/nulotirizixo.pdf
    • http://files.mradlertzhs.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871740/6934514.pdf
    • http://files.ethelbustamante.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814644/serapu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/degejuwetisagemudow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6074/6648/files/kartilya_ng_katipunan_summary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8491/3565/files/14532757694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1019/5605/files/30391621636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1755/8426/files/standard_phonetic_alphabet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8784/6806/files/6707146421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1448/7190/files/kulasekosawata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3970/9589/files/billie_eilish_i_love_you_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0306/0128/files/72511965333.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9051/7911/files/great_gospel_ff7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8133/4933/files/vilolisaroboleku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9900/5863/files/concone_trumpet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9569/4239/files/ubuntu_install_webmin.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004655.bin
8d798a700e4f0765d1f1999913252b6727792e12387549a456d1bd1dd072186a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4655 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005835.bin
0b406592cfd20f0c1a0ba151f03c3cf973b58ac313c012e50f8b14fe9d887013
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5835 9240 bytes