Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75c33c4ff6b9469d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-28 12:42:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4174be5ead4db4e11467679f8e3f9bc7 SHA-1: 5c1c8abd5ad0900ba9f4e4b7aeac4a5855093bc7 SHA-256: 75c33c4ff6b9469d97d5ab682c260b77d517d5ae527bb02fad68abd67e3a5683
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to educational materials. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site for further exploitation or phishing.

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/pify?keyword=solucionario+tema+1+recursos+humanos+mc+graw+hill
    • http://files.pattycakecupcakery.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814644/bejetipamop.pdf
    • http://runakaz.elizabethjunebergman.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303245/249889b2b1253f1.pdf
    • http://files.rollinakersfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871569/jipodanosipoxiw_ketifif.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8833/9354/files/59991731654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/figarawevig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1524/8794/files/auxiliary_verbs_worksheets_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9279/4774/files/47185167357.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/pojusudom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3355/1260/files/21444423115.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3102/0198/files/10595791633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3657/1808/files/passive_voice_simple_past_tense.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5357/9430/files/58787010031.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3483/5094/files/rinisinozoto.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_off00004316.bin
1eaf403efb9b13a0b0da64d8ae83d53bf7ede712e40e84a71680cec5acc01ffa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4316 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005588.bin
0aec635be9eede8417d8949ab450e4ac658998578fab0aaf80f0177bacd3a511
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5588 10792 bytes