Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9f8ba284e138e6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:17:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0e887f0d4afeb57d02d86a0114f662ae SHA-1: a6bf26862033baf31d201b33066ee953ada0d347 SHA-256: a9f8ba284e138e6bee6a00ed06500ab2e057e81636f95c5034674783cf089243
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'Patterns of inheritance worksheet'. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or phishing attempts.

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.com/wix?keyword=patterns+of+inheritance+worksheet+an
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9244/2264/files/72572238339.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0243/7527/files/6108864910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1578/files/glass_facade_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5556/2398/files/xevurerajivokilirited.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9982/4032/files/guidebook_of_us_coin_values.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b444d4_ba8db249636c422186068c94950d2f1a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd3290_ebf1c494474047858e9c03eae8f3680d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/225520_411226ce26da4eec9c17d0e2e08e05e3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1e215a6c350440fc924b43cd4d3f3ad2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_755a425186c147e590f737f9fd439564.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a2e4_02858d27b8a34b5981e647157b9b2d71.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3699/9831/files/49603933335.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sosivizugepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7868/8408/files/lateral_cephalometric_analysis.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000640e.bin
7a66bef9063dcefed7435b706d8fa5525bbb76de390c626ff01263a4b9798e7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x640E 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000756b.bin
de094bf420c41ddc1b29bb22301923b7f89e7d5d5f71e47c9746a6c778f7098d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x756B 10364 bytes