Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74769d3d11ba04d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 77db4300725eca743713feedd4a3e172 SHA-1: 280addeac8a609206f038f73011eeae52a21ad49 SHA-256: 74769d3d11ba04d23773d584025a4385bf3d063bcdc144abe65d72f6ba6c3908
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates the primary purpose is to direct users to harmful infrastructure. The presence of numerous other PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content.

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.cc/wix?keyword=castle+learning+ecology+answers
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2ebd8_fd82da091a954c2691c13844fdf0d7bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b77b08_257eab4c8e064ad9b25d1a3d821e122f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93971e_1f3e2b33a0314d048f261935e0c2ef92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_b1103ff824b94436a6b9a04d063bf4ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1212ee6505934e7aaace600adefe48b0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3010/9593/files/boy_scout_merit_badge_pamphlets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2407/9254/files/70768864970.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2723/4969/files/wagifitenogakonet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2974/2246/files/adding_fractions_coloring_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4474/8950/files/69602600520.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/0409/2569/files/atlantica_online_by_ini3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4856/6933/files/69481197715.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9327/6312/files/xiwenowaluzalifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2432/6564/files/91537768372.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_off0000660b.bin
69abdbdcac1792fb2a67d192f5bca01bf457f5c5ced4e693b83dd12ca2e5cace
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x660B 5064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007765.bin
4b375505b66f9cdbe4f1b4f730d1589fe333da48895d10e304e703f0ed5fb3c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7765 13472 bytes