Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 721ca1b617e8b239…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 11:08:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b705046da9caddb182caaeb9261c06e SHA-1: 0781e1532c67675cc21938958628d4f43b240378 SHA-256: 721ca1b617e8b2394f74acafad71d4d471407fbe7a8b7f387b521d3a37713367
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to educational exercises, aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier 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.ru/wix?keyword=ejercicios+de+operaciones+combinadas+secundaria
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad64b139ef814e4697fa16b5cca6eaac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cee14021b15d486f9ed32e7362f66a60.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d33253fdaf18415091ede50dcd5b0372.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8c369762975a41ddad84b8131cc23851.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2a5aa4b91117444d966558782b815cbe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5469/3529/files/drag_queen_new_orleans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0667/3574/files/pixel_gun_hack_no_survey.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1533/1227/files/17502299734.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9013/0584/files/evolucion_del_cerebro_humano_a_traves_del_tiempo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dd2eee70ff68435f8f69e24793e08da0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_50fb5fd106654119a8fcc2913c9d35d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_be72e937c562439a986832a6616e0d42.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_46e0c58e1bab46e691f51630ab7c73a6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6741f90b353c4d09a2050c093fafc4bf.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_off0000631e.bin
37b2f7498686f0a42fa1d3a3f1a11d0057e70cf4532dfd0fab74f16469f5d0b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x631E 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007533.bin
42c538c33ba8b0f8efd21376aa40706adf271dd535c94bca898269ca2df29e15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7533 14428 bytes