Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 860bebc874aad664…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.3 KB Created: 2020-09-02 04:12:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fad8187fece1839cfbdf450dbae36648 SHA-1: 2a27629eacaefaa61a9aeb32833007cd5a901a33 SHA-256: 860bebc874aad664e2c37ea913b9ed21a5449e7f2d97ed31b9df42738e132b6e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a worksheet answer key, likely a lure to encourage clicks. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the redirector heuristic point to a phishing or redirection attempt.

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.me/wix?keyword=periodic+table+puzzle+worksheet+answers
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d018b_8674aea3394c45f0b2ce10430d825097.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/738632_22310840e268437698bbb95220120133.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a4d831feda404e4c92f81e710a87819e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4198/0567/files/bifotu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9691/5616/files/zivuxasovabuverem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1463/5171/files/podubuki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5013/8784/files/33224149429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/0224/9636/files/67605513038.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3772/0733/files/61468644177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7341/3032/files/mac_os_x_cracked_apps.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9932/4580/files/cheats_gta_san_andreas_ps2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4017/7308/files/microsoft_office_flyer_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1506/1153/files/57260370971.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/19103d_8dc93e22c8c54cc89dd04f52325ab932.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac72e0_0886f23abccc4e0dbe19e0d0eb950502.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_off000043c5.bin
d267c0d4c206c3cdbc6cbbb829ced3da7c879e1047398955333958e3216975f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x43C5 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000568e.bin
13b8fd0c7418062e89cddfb70a1429eb4bd7a79e75a7fc975e8596841e1bcd64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x568E 8784 bytes