Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfadcf015d368e2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.3 KB Created: 2020-11-08 09:32:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 44446f592257e468316cf28700477374 SHA-1: 6063e2823631b17bd07fcb5854d666f214db6793 SHA-256: cfadcf015d368e2c0233622a2263c363be76861a7cc79dd6be19082b5eb561b5
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for 'assistments answer key'. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector strongly suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gettraff.ru/123?keyword=assistments+answer+key
    • https://benukozememig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134480731/bezilim.pdf
    • https://xapawijumoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379373/8474e.pdf
    • https://naxujurimarawe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134640244/zezumulup-nopoj-vifopesan-xipiluw.pdf
    • https://wezawitulenif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134338426/1511348.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://tukifafagen.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/code._org_answers_lesson_18.pdf
    • https://wiludilake.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/xomew.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/93a4a1cb-72d7-4597-972d-f23bafd965bb/medical_surgical_nursing_free_downlo.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dcdb2b18-1501-4162-8071-a4905a6332a3/akame_ga_kill_parents_guide.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sugaguxagu/52120800006.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jezaxojipevu/wafewexafegikaxuxufi.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ganubifirigevi/marina_sirtis_images.pdf
    • https://vazezimu.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/91788389588.pdf
    • https://ferarim.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/pekasivegupeluwugu.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_off0001790d.bin
e02f53971aa28c91b42fe06033737e6f179d3021729eef1136e9792127a86d4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1790D 5044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00018a35.bin
6a0253a6a530a8f91f07b63bc892f10d1c6d42eab6b0ec05fdf06cc028282e31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A35 12708 bytes