Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19bcf2e3cda303d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-07-31 16:57:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de7d622a23e36d8c1108ff7ef1284a4f SHA-1: f406ba3a23a2f5fde088198a916b636cb9c9d049 SHA-256: 19bcf2e3cda303d2bc6cc9f574b1014480d6f9980e2564c803027e9b8bf2fc1b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, disguised as a search result for an academic book. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this behavior. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and text related to academic content, suggesting a lure.

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.ru/pify?keyword=intermediate+algebra+lehmann+5th+edition+pdf
    • http://files.ladidaa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739974/soduf.pdf
    • http://files.watson5th.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452840/puvemileza.pdf
    • http://files.bombblastsensations.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398358/8322124.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8942/8637/files/11029613613.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3206/8775/files/83757015424.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1015/files/409988067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4306/0901/files/batidezagugibudor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mozesuseb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5800/3096/files/kuderubupe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vevisip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4399/files/donodimulexoku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6375/4404/files/87433259403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5506/2948/files/sajalajere.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9065/4870/files/82510448330.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_off0000889f.bin
22c14fbadd2de886a6deb86637e093d71b841f44cc7f7ca16dcae372fab0abba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x889F 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009b0f.bin
e1c5f715336f869d3586636ed8c40a40346237604bc67351ed0b1c28385f67ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B0F 10580 bytes