Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73c112bb99564cba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.9 KB Created: 2020-09-10 00:49:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c81296bdadde988ba1e83f58916b6e8e SHA-1: 5415c094d24f4968fd60a4c45bd9a10ad683e088 SHA-256: 73c112bb99564cba39c235703a46cdd6f6bf9cddc0b3e771bcd649a330b1bed2
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one critical heuristic identifying it as a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=exercices+corrig%25C3%25A9s+sur+la+chimie+atomistique+pdf', is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to chemistry exercises, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=exercices+corrig%25C3%25A9s+sur+la+chimie+atomistique+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/269bb8_fa24c1c2bbeb438da850c015212557d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/857e61_434fc75da8a947c38c5d1ca337d04188.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/54b9a1_70ea18f21941472f989101ae805ab9fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/efb3f0_11535c4fb9114de4a03241c0c9c77c21.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_f3079048d0024631b800e12e25027a8e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05301a_5400fabd009f4cad86ad013f0e61909e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98e298_939dfb27f9a34fe8b06fe4d872619d05.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8350/5570/files/proform_xp_550.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6622/0695/files/6_column_balance_sheet.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_4f6ad678e72a4b4abdd68dfb91fbe1dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_83b9462286874da28ee99fd604e281d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c8df25_93128578f6ce430d8d1fc0dbb57281df.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cdfdba_5f58d39dd41c4dddb84da191b046564c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77eba6_58c04cf83b37480dbb73b373665a0ff4.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_off0000913e.bin
aa81396a1a8357cef7187861a0fa9b31b739563f842f36113053b405b97fd771
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x913E 5864 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a4cb.bin
a40cca2f121ee7fb4dfc9f5c8789bce24d1c489c5d0e93168afec8d9f03e21b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4CB 12264 bytes