Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eea8acde0088ad6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:57:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e5d9cbfd63dda447cf0c0b2bc93f2e40 SHA-1: 176ace9736b2adaf51d780ac64b48432e46d9891 SHA-256: 1eea8acde0088ad66f002bd1b38b7bc3eda740c6f45588edbd109bb4c7e5a5a3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as academic resources, but the primary link leads to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially garbled, contains text related to 'accounting theory lecture notes pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content.

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=accounting+theory+lecture+notes+pdf
    • http://files.patriciagodden.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483019/5adf2.pdf
    • http://files.bergthalmennonitechurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969151/sasopofa-sanamanuxibas-napapesupi.pdf
    • http://files.mhburnsclub.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437753/12c635929.pdf
    • http://jutika.pst4y.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/xekiki_fugole_namivurumatet_xagutuku.pdf
    • http://jarusi.lastwatchhorology.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606346/ee5731e5f666d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0292/1111/files/suxurezofejosuditi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7857/4490/files/21367642244.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/metiliwetizo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lozafawofife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7385/5903/files/tafesutaxaxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4527/3248/files/52742052676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0688/5031/files/tunisofudisepex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0144/4514/files/29002437476.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7384/6952/files/gijemigasujevus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6196/8025/files/tadewanitesumeviwa.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_off00004bd7.bin
b8f6f66d9d5db07e1e9e957d701f6eabd869b4185f46909f951f17881dc04d9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BD7 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005de8.bin
46b48f5727ad60a8b76e322a4c2f35b2cda96fdacd06e5752e4aea3d8154e840
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DE8 9160 bytes