Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 424433619d6ca5a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-09-08 17:25:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29f448d3a85fb628b96c8eef39dd22bb SHA-1: c2bc6f28c3458f9e908878d97b93a6c04ed0582a SHA-256: 424433619d6ca5a31ab3dee515229e70b2888d5ad1650044b2bccb64121a4129
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document contains a link farm designed to appear as a "high school transcript template with gpa calculator" to lure users. The primary malicious indicator is the embedded URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the lure text and the malicious URL. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.link/wix?keyword=high+school+transcript+template+with+gpa+calculator
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0564/8801/files/34638361217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0020/7272/files/apa_style_reference_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5486/6337/files/kiwavonojorurawaxejap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1870/6341/files/3170378049.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/7563/3057/files/benedetto_croce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_4ec7f8613ac24073a56657ef5180574c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d017d5_c62f5218e7644e8d9b61b4711bdf5def.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8a419d_c2c920550c73465f955ac81fc081e587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1274/3580/files/60342126113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3241/0272/files/kaththi_sandai_ringtones_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9275/5111/files/9103767261.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e4eb4_632518bb14884f5dbaec35579fa6789a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ac701_756200efed00434e91d8cd46ac6ad783.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4cf28d_7768a78d8fd143bc86b01163e2da14ff.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061ec.bin
b76561e51fd0a2411935e04e85f6d9ba8007e6a8f7474ab2a81cb6d90dbd33bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61EC 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007434.bin
4a804e4aaf32dfd34c488050d77e8a2efba135de5e3ee28d9995590ec5d25ec1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7434 10424 bytes