Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3424df9c313444f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 10:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f5231126d478b44d5a2f01dc8f0c0e88 SHA-1: 0edd6f17e43992e5d8d30532de31c15c14ac3b91 SHA-256: 3424df9c313444f92fc8ba6c31acfa94932b134c52ea5873a0a1f166fa1e3883
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as search results for educational materials, but the primary link redirects to a known malicious URL. This technique is used to trick users into visiting malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm strongly indicates malicious intent.

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/pify?keyword=algebra+2+textbook+answers+mcgraw+hill
    • http://bavebup.lakecountyiltransition.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438539/9653562.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6971/0242/files/best_markup_app_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1407/0945/files/factory_mutual_approval_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8665/files/60351386676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8660/1639/files/49317229464.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/66826092524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0202/5368/files/beyond_compare_softonic.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/datofugilasififuko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3192/0794/files/human_body_organs_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5557/8273/files/ideological_state_apparatuses_are_nonviolent_social_formations.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_off000069bc.bin
d1e8ea9eccb28ee455eb4d2e7bdebae9914846cd41dbc8780480de6125d57e16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69BC 5696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d13.bin
c07d1c45790876fa0e8bf194398f32398526bee5c3a5785798b1c52276db909a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D13 10860 bytes