Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11dafa3181908572…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 11:13:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6707169fe36c3be10bc916df4ffb822e SHA-1: ed8ce8b7860bb1db183b900940643eee247bf18c SHA-256: 11dafa31819085725558e94451e24451c262b57b69f255cbb7d283da18b8cccf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a malicious redirector, which is part of a link farm designed to distribute numerous other PDF files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an 'answer key' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.cc/pify?keyword=gizmo+student+exploration+tides+answer+key
    • http://jaguk.pollyyuen.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407164/jukodatobuwegif.pdf
    • http://files.trinityscholar.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636745/9003152.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3917/9420/files/79833599402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5722/5638/files/tool_72826_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0976/7584/files/guided_imagery_definition_cancer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2653/7883/files/fovikunifoxaxujamiraziba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8143/3242/files/rearrange_pages_in_adobe_reader_11.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4927/1975/files/all_functions_in_python.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6778/files/graphic_tablet_app_for_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9206/6709/files/44593636256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8488/1825/files/61360418868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4097/1674/files/17537953625.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9681/0396/files/class_10_maths_all_chapter_formula_download.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_off00004667.bin
a2206d98d97d73ecb867700d60cef584d625b17f2cb8375a1f3b93aac3f9a288
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4667 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005938.bin
a5706f6c8b024bd45417bf0e65d1fa804ca81f61876f089595c62fa2300c85a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5938 9720 bytes