Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef1ac4ac17a9bb3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 19:39:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ed00dbbc79160af218ac18f9442a538f SHA-1: 0dad871457579d974faffef2642add83b3bfaaf2 SHA-256: ef1ac4ac17a9bb3e80784d39c28d611026dbd646399dd85918869f734021cd71
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link disguised as an educational worksheet, which redirects to a known malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure includes a link farm, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=there+is+there+are+worksheet+with+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1430/5430/files/stone_little_alchemy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1083/4077/files/65547039868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1357/0709/files/58366388290.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90423f_5929a00fbffe4643a479208b71126de2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12dc78_98e474c6b56149b5a745f1d551a58322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4486/3133/files/abraham_maslow_hierarchy_of_needs_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9975/0560/files/52398544902.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2260/4695/files/accounting_and_finance_an_introduction_atrill_mclaney.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6179/5229/files/nivanek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5461/files/77357541734.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f1780b_e348ee4465854b4e9c8d2b1a035712b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_66ffbac10baa43a1afe90f3009dc55b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b284ab947e6e4f3989388f7e7be5d91e.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_off00005f2e.bin
739702964e2dbf9efdf6a28a7488d7d861df94f11b45ce3ef445268822f0c4a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F2E 4848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb4.bin
8a95bd15108430545816857d697bcd6ff4af1947a153cb6356e877f152dba029
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB4 10496 bytes