Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 101dc30e17870b68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.3 KB Created: 2020-08-13 09:40:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5425eb3eebd93b4e40ae9d14b7381ae1 SHA-1: 4927a88bb16a1e549d40c7c64a5c8ccab9f89cf3 SHA-256: 101dc30e17870b6819767e1ddd4ca80ef5fa9daad0c7452fd3ff1a4e21a54413
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, disguised as an answer key. This is supported by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic and the embedded URL in the document body. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The file is likely a phishing lure to redirect users to malicious content.

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/wb?keyword=vocabulary%20workshop%20level%20c%20unit%206%20answer%20key%20pdf
    • http://files.huntsvillepsych.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712093/667508.pdf
    • http://files.lorraineparishwriter.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873870/lobojixo.pdf
    • http://files.granitecityhvac.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681976/4382118.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5621/7750/files/38752455323.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2353/1158/files/13656869595.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4738/6268/files/37034547266.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5353/7685/files/cch_tch_trang_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5313/7576/files/japajesawel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0496/6565/files/microelectronic_circuits_6th_edition_solution_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4470/9276/files/54250738817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2731/5353/files/37334200943.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6019/8557/files/jojivisatomusaref.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1256/2849/files/tibuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3703/8494/files/insertion_sort_javascript.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6863/7862/files/pdf_printable_aa_attendance_sheet.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_off000047b8.bin
6ef7e02a4c5a0aa983995583dba16cfab4044dd50531f87a764d58aec3cfdefc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47B8 5820 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b91.bin
986b5fa9cf0e8c3e88acf9b9efaa650e333108637e8a9f6b62d1c94de0c6df05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B91 9700 bytes