Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 244b9d434446353e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-05 07:27:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 13761d7c249e578908fcefefd8180a24 SHA-1: 3e7cf37cb82ca6ddf07fdafe2c4a0583b2e53407 SHA-256: 244b9d434446353e7ef9cfb5d61ce96f0fdd3df2a3394004c13848f680f4a226
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as educational content, but the primary URL redirects to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure includes numerous links to external PDF files, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation to obscure the malicious intent. The document body itself is largely obfuscated but contains the primary malicious URL.

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.com/pify?keyword=biology+one+liners+for+ssc+cgl+pdf
    • http://files.gibdevelopments.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871622/pudunigutegul_xuwozepeba_nojarew.pdf
    • http://files.worldvegantravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607053/rekin.pdf
    • http://files.justicepyramidfair.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815009/gapaluxuxurek.pdf
    • http://files.lorimuldoon.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969075/kozoge.pdf
    • http://files.prestonmcclellan.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/xometipapalu_panaxabafeja_patovoveguk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0709/0589/files/zunopegupufebugesure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9442/4232/files/ethical_considerations_in_business_research.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6148/6503/files/licensed_to_drive_full_movie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4631/files/54530390720.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6694/9786/files/dufol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2353/8088/files/75669249085.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1607/7991/files/juzevo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5307/2022/files/potaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6081/3208/files/jipijerudovewamekuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4202/8182/files/83541334075.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4464/files/81213139100.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_off0000641b.bin
58613265e424b69737363dccb333ef2b4a1a1e0b49bb550791bd81e4658d5274
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x641B 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007628.bin
34c7f76fc994f2d107ab962a902d7c966351481153508e956cdd1634887f7267
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7628 10420 bytes