Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1813afee372f916c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:24:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7c6d11f7ab33867d12a3c1666fee62ec SHA-1: 640b3f2f4202761a064be287f9f66c1113a9acae SHA-256: 1813afee372f916cafed5b1038cf8c872a390193779927243fe199cf592940a6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a lure for "Texas dental jurisprudence exam answers", which is then followed by the malicious URL. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many of which are to benign Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt.

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.ru/pify?keyword=texas+dental+jurisprudence+exam+answers
    • http://vemotu.pennlawlambda.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712615/dasazorena-wuvolaxoxa-zedewerore-nabem.pdf
    • http://files.qarpet.shop/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969065/8566434.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6224/8102/files/hancom_office_netffice_24.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5916/5849/files/biochemistry_lab_test_procedure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/zebra_barcode_printer_gk420t.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7932/0223/files/27191919022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3006/7865/files/epilepsy_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/3016/files/15919503136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8974/0441/files/lakimatefekifutatavurej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5593/0783/files/diseo_de_investigacion_descriptivo_correlacional.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0455/7472/files/fowirotezowibudoripokekus.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_off0000668c.bin
e0ff2cbb819227acc4697e4c430187eaf22ca709a393f6db17a2f51fea6da570
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x668C 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078e5.bin
b06cd29653441a1f384ec40035d4ceeb546f68637395191cc96fd6c7ee66d042
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E5 10712 bytes