Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c75a9ec8c43fc65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:22:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0e8193759fe5effcf52e1dece4990e4 SHA-1: 699e79f5fcf65a7a668b0fb50b7e237f7cc63127 SHA-256: 1c75a9ec8c43fc658ee594b81636da59e101392343700b4addf58484edb55481
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the same malicious URL and a benign-looking PDF title, suggesting a lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links.

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/pify?keyword=essential+grammar+in+use+supplementary+exercises+with+key+pdf
    • http://files.svgreatschools.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407194/jorosemija.pdf
    • http://files.nmnawgj.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682134/jiwekenado_mumanujotipinub_benenufab_keridu.pdf
    • http://files.timnordphoto.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398487/pifipidurotitof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7522/1144/files/install_docker_on_windows.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1980/4578/files/nigisa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0926/1217/files/biredorifamubelib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7441/1926/files/89384047326.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2344/8736/files/twisted_murderer_script.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1656/9500/files/49764663038.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3888/3495/files/daria_restoration_project.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4539/6386/files/banavelejo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1814/1347/files/8576075637.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_off00004204.bin
d4b92565177b3c8e41ac674f0f6c8c7e7f4e68f1db9e4eae9546356e572f1db8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4204 5852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055e8.bin
a56008c5fbdbf2cc8f302d542af9a80e4911f6b4536b17b1cf8da286123fa3df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55E8 10480 bytes