Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2de233e777045b47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-07-21 21:21:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: c348730c2add617ebb965939bc6e459a SHA-1: cffeadae9aa6c318f72c8175038dd56f8c075e1b SHA-256: 2de233e777045b47dd433a8f4eb5a8965753733aa24bb41dc50355a466fd70ca
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to educational worksheets. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but the primary redirector is malicious. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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/wb?keyword=adverb%20practice%20worksheets%206th%20grade In PDF document text
    • http://files.climbingpamphlet.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637047/f749a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coastalcivil.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776393/xunemelovakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thines-talks.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408970/2096330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.linwoodfarmersmarket.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814586/0800174f631c69c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesepticinspector.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856877/bibago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5288/3352/files/remefesilenisorodeninimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0591/0933/files/50340561948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5769/2320/files/fiwitisawilejenatamej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2040/3356/files/raruvozabajifonale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/15125842299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jovumisev.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/83574855828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tazotezevol.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zakowerira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zekipanepu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/31848084673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fupiwexobus.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/26748337549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vixupidiva.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/53929250321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1241/3851/files/mopewopobuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0298/6659/files/29458765781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2451/5235/files/60285028493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0472/3349/files/21226240181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0071/6694/files/77849951588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8120/3861/files/52649847602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1583/0695/files/68791574687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000782b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x782B 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 6132c07954b3716d75a727f4b8a48c1aed4c2b3d1bde5c4de1bf910991b11d4b
font_01_sfnt_off00008af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AF3 10120 bytes
SHA-256: e3c45590ca8070347da1ec59033a027102dbf0edfb52e7782e8528b9c707259c