Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d85a1d3b1a93a3dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 08:51:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 310d71120c3b963cf4e1d018515ddc54 SHA-1: 996b993119a7f30a48f6607f4e21418e2cc52d36 SHA-256: d85a1d3b1a93a3ddd2e7690f54d96f65faae662f6dac2afbc6e90fe58b7f9329
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'American education' and a PDF title, suggesting a lure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content.

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=american+education+joel+spring+17th+edition+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/affb4a_65eb539fd62545e4b50af919f14bd79b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/15cd4d_ff785025ba0549d9b80a2ceb342deedb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/77d535_c109ad0be9b64f99a727cf70d4296799.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4eff25d7850a40f7b91869aedce118a8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f3ecbe_b96c16c49bf9407892e8ebed61b0a91a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9b3437ac93af4eedb579bd23c38eb787.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_157440d2edae43d6b7bdffdd7c5d561d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dfb5f8_a98ad2f131ef4ebbafd670f183b9561c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7441/1926/files/72947157269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/3629/4558/files/docker_ubuntu_16.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2390/8520/files/4533403365.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4826f5_dd8fe0e1b7ee4441afb6b31281dc10ab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_42717236b40443d0974665c2105e88a0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b6bf5b_89d0b04935674ed4968f6210099fb51a.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_off00004ae1.bin
b07981447fbf9f8abb9af77d53407368df0b4c9fd330f38af719607ff434bb0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AE1 5768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e61.bin
185fe5f6de84e493af8ff157a68c72f9a995814249a1ce456b525eae807e03bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E61 10044 bytes