Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64a520ecf9461539…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-09-04 20:10:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e2cf30b4e10bf16af895ce70d8ebbc2e SHA-1: 073939b13fb150ce32311c1bfa7ef82a4847f939 SHA-256: 64a520ecf9461539338f4cce1d5ec0948bdbc97e393025ce0323e54e36ea186d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and appears to be a lure for educational content. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. 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.club/pify?keyword=indefinite+and+negative+words+spanish+worksheet
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9734e7_995c7bd643ce47cfa9ac7d60e193e08f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c8a981_e54354384d3b4b719fcb199e257fb7f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89602e_bc388c9567ce4a88b07f06c021f5a6b2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6915/2163/files/jimewadesenivuzezuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9197/5580/files/acuerdo_de_paz_en_guatemala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5209/5898/files/livro_python_para_anlise_de_dados.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7113/6154/files/xefigitosozif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8104/7965/files/73586815189.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5438e3_ebc539a6dcff49e3a6106fc40859dfa1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9b94b05d034940d8877c2d6facf28444.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_1041bd6194bb4839bc4d2988ee8058f9.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005834.bin
cefa819b1df8d2943fa462f85e6a98f026bed747efb9bb5e251221aee578ce1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5834 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006abe.bin
609294b60dbe501c1b2bf3a114afe2b05c960e66a7d01eeb112d65c91802175e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ABE 11472 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000090ee.bin
a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90EE 16204 bytes