Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83ed8785f4004dec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-24 11:10:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8719759ec71bfd669a8dd4bfcc610826 SHA-1: 621ca89a3e8038b6c368e257e41f502f49d8522c SHA-256: 83ed8785f4004dec20894102441e061aa9a66f67130a7af02ec6d31d283b8b1a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristics. The document body text and embedded links suggest a lure related to 'NCAA clearinghouse information sheet' to entice clicks. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or redirection attack.

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/pify?keyword=ncaa+clearinghouse+information+sheet
    • http://vizokekud.smalleyestate.myhackney.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775643/6d8c29fb860c.pdf
    • http://lerovuw.stevedurow.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712109/lakugejuwere_xataponud.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7836/6872/files/buzulolixop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8812/5857/files/rixisezawaverapajuwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/79348642796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9087/8372/files/dudujorokunako.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6895/6573/files/sojabajes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1269/1880/files/aycliffe_drive_primary_school_uniform.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5639/0559/files/dijutudasitewozefeda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1943/6185/files/32433913300.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7235/6509/files/62268613144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2865/8848/files/15261851011.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0713/0270/files/query_remove_duplicates_google_sheets.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_off00005f3d.bin
c40a8311f894335e230d13c76c9917ad62d5c78b2527917648e098241b197e4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F3D 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070f6.bin
439630ff7a3be9ab3191c5c1ba56b4b1f474665deee2e253bed2d9bd2aa5ef09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70F6 10476 bytes