Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c20bc4ac97262eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 09:01:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f776f39eccabefb9962cc808f322a72c SHA-1: 49f28245d04ad5ec38d39e07030cb5005fed8723 SHA-256: 1c20bc4ac97262eb1ce4630ae6a686c7cffe3fe6f409991adb527ab82829cba4
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as educational material, but the primary link redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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.cc/wb?keyword=triangle%20congruence%20worksheet%20#1%20answers
    • http://files.bigmamasugarcookies.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740262/9a2f2840893.pdf
    • http://razel.stevewelford.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/sapiwowizuwuvo.pdf
    • http://xizep.longislandsocialsports.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406893/xezoroxije_razexefiwefok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7093/7498/files/66823546578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7701/files/1616704443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8307/0630/files/60659772599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5906/1670/files/44987719893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1763/3945/files/nemewore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6656/3487/files/muziresapigiwerunugixulup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1697/7559/files/agile_software_development_model.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8821/files/lavogetanutuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7321/6412/files/inheritance_set_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6951/3632/files/bls_cpr_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7129/9999/files/deberopo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8330/8955/files/vibeko.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_off000048ff.bin
f0b7ab9845ae8370f132fde97a89bb66116043bb27f5b98a8e6b65c34faebfdd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48FF 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a98.bin
0fd15ecc0c4571acc14414d5e9ee33936d305df4ea31991a77e92fef3c7e3a32
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A98 8972 bytes