Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 187012d9ca71a1c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 03:46:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 460c9fdc45f3ceb760cada536ad2bbe3 SHA-1: 47e83ab8aaba07f8e9dde66294f3091301a730d0 SHA-256: 187012d9ca71a1c40a0b447944b847fd7f4ffeb1e2d800d6f2a11550044970f0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the one found in the heuristics, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious activity as educational material. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many of which are benign, likely serves to obscure the malicious redirector among legitimate-looking 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.ru/wix?keyword=word+families+worksheets
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e410d4f346c64079ac679105f1d659f9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8a11080f724b4a2cb24dc0a40c4d53e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b6a6978593d34cf9a289c5df23707cec.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/mewusofepegak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9415/4146/files/gta_v_trophies_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7430/3640/files/christmas_carol_movie_mp4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_868d8264d78d4aec8feb2fc91f93e382.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e6b09d0ef47d445bb7a58f12c76a5975.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2990/6079/files/19993648673.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9051/7911/files/55031165013.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_off00005d45.bin
14c24dc8dbcf9d65aa6d96b90a7c34168191de61e3d42c2bbd1c7ac4d6dc9023
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D45 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f51.bin
7a4988449d0e21c45b3cf4fe22d2ae64eda1db16f562e45690f0d5c046236aef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F51 10428 bytes