Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 194c2ed3d4b840d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-07 02:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5705aedc32b0580cd67adef9a3781b05 SHA-1: 677b816ac27f36f47193d00f063ae22f46bac820 SHA-256: 194c2ed3d4b840d3960634a602a7ed22080eb84f6ab5a1d910444478b8467e20
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, with one critical heuristic identifying a redirector to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a 'business english pdf course'. The presence of a link farm and a redirector suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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/pify?keyword=business+english+pdf+course
    • http://files.pacificcrestcomedy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437157/ramugesenatedig_duparagaru_vavuxamife_lurimeze.pdf
    • http://files.islandtrails.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874012/mebevu-wugixup-banosarevewu-mijig.pdf
    • http://files.boydsbaseball.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381450/figekejeluro.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6345/1560/files/piviwalesojeganej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0649/8728/files/rawuvewanuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6195/3191/files/90630145645.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1596/9688/files/89275908117.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9091/2159/files/13745808720.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/98683155313.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2511/2988/files/vufevokikifi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2376/0536/files/pabojejunuradijaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/58613538585.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1959/2102/files/55683924066.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1272/6677/files/example_of_official_letter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wabodenerevugibew.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_off00005e02.bin
c76409b07bddffe8e0a38ecb0c2ad4f1896bebbc14859684ac2859f0e81ea80c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E02 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fe6.bin
64f0139efd83a1850ddd86bee90ec0a0e30ce7af5b76bc410701abcb005cb5a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FE6 10312 bytes