Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b5d5e5596ed3dc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.3 KB Created: 2020-08-16 17:29:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f1b24bd0df327ff8d87f679e9a704b29 SHA-1: 98794197f11fb54df311697e52f0617446fe8e5d SHA-256: 1b5d5e5596ed3dc4071126b7f27348aee7b12fbaea2f5868b7fdda56a2ca8520
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to academic answers and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm points to SEO poisoning tactics.

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=the+new+gcse+arabic+companion+answers
    • http://files.cbdisegno.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776368/2c5250f549eb.pdf
    • http://files.agealive.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437236/waputexotajax-luxoki-busiso-didopever.pdf
    • http://files.kathleenmoranart.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/kufelewekusapajelop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8017/9107/files/public_sector_accounting_and_finance_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0601/7185/files/jemugelisabupewaxaxiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7000/5156/files/autodesk_recap_photo_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7318/4678/files/factores_psicologicos_del_consumidor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5592/2856/files/66681156757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1792/0934/files/partquip_wheel_bearing_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4076/7132/files/59072161882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6299/2795/files/blackjack_game_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4901/7756/files/pembuatan_arang_batok_kelapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2692/2146/files/booklet_printing_adobe.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_off00004b39.bin
2e6c098f46e331a266006669cb0d3c10addf774afc90f6d48b7da07d991c45ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B39 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005dd2.bin
49cee349a900a91907385314ccb3f46e471c27caae0ae7152053031649dd7568
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DD2 10192 bytes