Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b821a70bd7b718ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-11-09 14:43:18 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f84940d63c8ef85ae4669a92d8ddbc58 SHA-1: 734168efbeeb8e523a42040ec627894f0bb2dba3 SHA-256: b821a70bd7b718ee27c29003d0b4df4ad25e7deab5ddd91220413932405017ed
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link disguised as information about SAT test dates, which is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to a malicious site. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://gettraff.ru/aws?keyword=sat+test+dates+2019-+2020 In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40638870-ce76-4c70-a45c-f09aa5375a43/5156064737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b8ed1c20-f0b5-4735-9039-8888ed2bf879/22547372021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5f64a642-853b-4e5e-8fed-97980ae901fd/nyc_doe_school_calendar_2020-21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a47f524-b271-45ce-a6e5-b7d2f9696604/leditux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3b7369e4-db5f-4f48-8e46-f7691523cfa6/how_to_make_a_giant_glass_bottle_in_minecraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/be06900a-00f2-4525-8134-e29c9d48b0f6/mudagifabegavolejafeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8b872d97-4f7c-47d1-aed7-56b543bf06e9/18937790554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c5f0851-e75e-48c6-9f3f-e3561ab07738/dark_eyes_after_rhinoplasty.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vifusupegiza/the_impossible_quiz_question_16_answer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/722ea665-fb8b-4856-a0e6-b14dba53b927/oracle_schema_vs_user.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/043dc623-e47d-4b12-9501-a43229dadcde/pegatron_m2n78-la_motherboard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8ef8bee1-372c-4439-b330-e7062e021472/cornell_vet_school_average_gpa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7661 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 75996f6b5e138cf626606b85e704466c8d89fe4b1fbd19aed75d1b34026d8900
font_01_sfnt_off00008881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8881 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 01795380f45b2f4f0cc6a68267a31f9ae6df82a53a03d08e2a9ef944d4ef5545