Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 65b8446e48433a42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-09-18 08:17:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 00d5eb2a12ee953e93aa8cbea832ddda SHA-1: b1478164d2fafd130cf7b7902ab1b5ac00162d75 SHA-256: 65b8446e48433a4297aa45f71ee0b5616a7cb4dee42b63398a24cba7e11fe86b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, suggesting an attempt to lead users to malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains keywords related to educational pacing guides, likely used as a lure.

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=shelby+county+schools+pacing+guide+math
    • http://titok.noahsacksteder.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738824/sujiro-sakelif-zavoza-fobut.pdf
    • http://files.dissmathstutor.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740065/dusijaxilaluxo-zibila.pdf
    • http://kusanam.slipstreamnewmusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968961/0d9a6ed2ee.pdf
    • http://files.carriecharleybrown.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/9913925.pdf
    • http://sojuk.thefulfillmenthouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070493/bubavipifu.pdf
    • http://zavulelop.mngophercockshutt.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/pigizasifo_novimesuxusoj_mazigusisegezos_xibexewijaso.pdf
    • http://joketaso.vegansportsdad.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070301/mevedud-bimufupokabix.pdf
    • http://files.scottkaplanphd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483110/3705741.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://97914a57-62ea-4883-9f62-ddc62690d04e.filesusr.com/ugd/73f3b0_010bb6a5ae7d4729ab054b3d5fce82d5.pdf?index=true
    • https://6b9ef3c2-2ade-4c96-b889-90dd5a742910.filesusr.com/ugd/9421c8_99ae4f1476df4ac286a073052183e4d6.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off00004ba1.bin
8a7537af4869310c977c7e697ef9e7a74cd8d46c4e888dee72b97d3dc95a662c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BA1 5736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f08.bin
b3e90f8c47aafa8f21debc5f0a1fcfc929d3debc78a18d9f5f7fccaa33ee2689
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F08 10004 bytes