Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0be8505d9439c900…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-09-21 10:45:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 65977e56e151ca09727dbe9781249817 SHA-1: 0c1ffaadf419c2714995b044ba4ade6b6a7d2ca8 SHA-256: 0be8505d9439c900e4c984e70c2130b691cfe28c052cdfaf189c5c55628873dc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to educational content, likely to trick users into clicking the malicious links. The presence of a large number of external PDF links further supports a link farm or SEO poisoning 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.me/wix?keyword=chemistry+worksheet+wavelength+frequency+and+energy+of+electromagnetic+waves+answers
    • http://files.sandpointstakecommunications.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776655/489252.pdf
    • http://files.commonharvestcsa.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303209/cbeead.pdf
    • http://files.brianwhitson.me/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606046/85f33fe.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://aa9d992c-faaf-4514-a1d8-e53b1af88bc2.filesusr.com/ugd/1a1092_3ec5da883360490bbb3d67da527b76ec.pdf?index=true
    • https://de00ddf8-18cf-4e77-aa3e-0584e3bba0fd.filesusr.com/ugd/69695d_b7d9732612ac4db6a0636858463a1b81.pdf?index=true
    • https://ebf9b1a7-1a74-477a-939b-51c7068a047e.filesusr.com/ugd/b41a9a_b4e04d68e3124df4b1bc92ac80f365ca.pdf?index=true
    • https://08012d1c-ed3f-4de5-a046-be40c0c31758.filesusr.com/ugd/bc4951_dd29c97158f448bdbd23e56e7760a9a1.pdf?index=true
    • https://80936273-9bd9-402c-8f1b-ee929b2f845e.filesusr.com/ugd/f51585_98c0b5160b2947b689edbafb3e094d32.pdf?index=true
    • https://830406c8-7078-4548-a8a7-f9f7c2536c57.filesusr.com/ugd/3a38e0_25e8c1b4c56044ac8218ddb08e4a6f6c.pdf?index=true
    • https://ff889963-0651-4380-a694-301087fd680b.filesusr.com/ugd/0182ef_0d4ad7493af64d74ac4faab5e0e5c1de.pdf?index=true
    • https://8625763e-31be-42c8-9164-195d4bfaa550.filesusr.com/ugd/704566_c4b9cab90b6f4fa09ed1a1349ab01765.pdf?index=true
    • https://aa71a45c-4f4f-4f7c-9b1b-78412b0148e8.filesusr.com/ugd/9f06f8_4e23f8c2e6dd4ed68a4e1aa0ff57ce1f.pdf?index=true
    • https://ac4ea6aa-15eb-462d-acbf-cb1f763b918e.filesusr.com/ugd/564d2e_c359e6086414401f853473947cf68dd9.pdf?index=true
    • https://77a4120c-4fc8-4daf-89c5-761f3ef7979c.filesusr.com/ugd/7ff653_dbc61ee895fc429797ee718db081adba.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off00005e22.bin
749fbbd3846a100fb3611c3cc5465e3117e0d4ca2b1452866e42e215f4d95114
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E22 5784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071b7.bin
ebb015ceb2957183d626125890476e0afe75ba3a83f0fd8091e3853183c5f419
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71B7 9904 bytes