Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1967c7e6aea45253…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 05:31:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d7e23e6359f743531a0e18e45f6681e1 SHA-1: e09353cef6a5d54a7290a4c8f04a20baae9a25a8 SHA-256: 1967c7e6aea452539407c72493bc78b4e909db6656ed1a0a97dd971e8de3fa38
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to a link farm designed to host other PDFs. One of these URLs, https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=edexcel+a+level+music+technology+revision+guide, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to educational materials, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.com/wix?keyword=edexcel+a+level+music+technology+revision+guide
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07ef24_b547fe328bf54d2196486eb73c508c31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d349c48c4b87436dbe84a3b9d143293c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89363e_12083138550c452b90d46c9b77fdbe33.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f3ac6_04f8804766764f7dae790d5b8bd4ab2e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c618e9_78be48f5c56b4713a4c6f442ba296c1a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3739/9960/files/beginning_algebra_12th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8260/3934/files/63886198401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2486/5685/files/xureguziva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4677/3660/files/remowatinuvakewup.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97493d_b5c98ed3e205404ebd87b7505387546f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fa0309fac60d46d7bf4e023b674c999e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/097bd5_2aa0ee14c39642ad8a3da097f32fd034.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_off000041a0.bin
a1f5413bc5eec6e5c3ab3a6787b26574c971fbdbf364c24d6cd6d9a3ed64762a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x41A0 5540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005460.bin
ad8b6196e88229a6b23d8d8e4f080337dbabba0a50d3b227e733d652cecbf015
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5460 9564 bytes