Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afdf9b4fc35f3b6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-07-31 05:15:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c4ec7d0f42da77c3984f0c9943a82219 SHA-1: d23697a0534b55ed3b3b8ea3ae249dae2683866d SHA-256: afdf9b4fc35f3b6b1ae635c200b3b15c5adfb04e5b084e210c78e00f6f43817a
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, suggests a lure related to educational materials ('topographic map worksheet answer key'). The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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=topographic+map+worksheet+answer+key+pdf
    • http://files.cockburnarchitecture.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131484728/6276262.pdf
    • http://files.garyseast.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970015/pafotubaforaxofen.pdf
    • http://files.raymondjenningsartist.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302872/wovagupog_duluxawuguse.pdf
    • http://files.toddnelling.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969709/bosalawolidil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9751/3381/files/35968217255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3298/4222/files/lepilenosevopetudonej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1311/8872/files/nanosok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/1885060089.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8277/6729/files/5369875879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/22650439267.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1703/files/37036367423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1007/1460/files/mupapolasivunugafogufo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1945/9998/files/rubidelimawobaluka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8462/7614/files/xomopomozosedogitemulalom.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/043

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071d5.bin
ef04d2aa693faa7b266af5b15ae235359a5ddc8400e4ce9c98492bb06f8a8052
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D5 5532 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008490.bin
8d5b55b35a05a4510abc5fec5245f44060605bfd5af0c94cc48664f59841dfc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8490 10292 bytes