Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 280aa976a32c44b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:57:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29cd80c35a0e03a5f3ae67b01bec1bfb SHA-1: 2d32e08bbdf10a4fa0448c9e2f336cf560d2d8d5 SHA-256: 280aa976a32c44b042aabbe9bd7b875963aac622ff1eced11e2be07ba3f40f3d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting a lure related to 'compound sentences worksheet for grade 8'. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=compound+sentences+worksheet+for+grade+8
    • http://files.hdloolbox.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164063/22b22213f9e.pdf
    • http://files.debhenry.online/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682076/6858db236.pdf
    • http://jalunin.chilhowiechurch.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776407/kopep.pdf
    • http://lukom.cellcityshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739625/bidomejoresapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7840/0662/files/65914469922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6542/files/loforepozajoduv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3518/1724/files/rofidozol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3826/8830/files/69344600612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1721/5905/files/60186463162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rerisorajomowuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5850/6400/files/xiposaboloned.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1479/1068/files/mifuboxedinavedixud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1829/6232/files/28020487416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7296/files/petepanemubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/7247/8373/files/samsung_secure_folder_android_8.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_off00004bda.bin
e0809f8ffad1e02ab292e9610d7c1122ab95b1fdf91de1d94209e4892020f9d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BDA 5792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f77.bin
d68dbbe8a97a1dd9a2b9c1b22f0f871f8f0e62ec66716aaafe7294c7abdd759a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F77 9872 bytes