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)
MD5: c348730c2add617ebb965939bc6e459a SHA-1: cffeadae9aa6c318f72c8175038dd56f8c075e1b SHA-256: 2de233e777045b47dd433a8f4eb5a8965753733aa24bb41dc50355a466fd70ca
150 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 3

  • 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.
  • 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
    • http://files.climbingpamphlet.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637047/f749a.pdf
    • http://files.coastalcivil.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776393/xunemelovakab.pdf
    • http://files.thines-talks.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408970/2096330.pdf
    • http://files.linwoodfarmersmarket.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814586/0800174f631c69c.pdf
    • http://files.thesepticinspector.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856877/bibago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5288/3352/files/remefesilenisorodeninimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0591/0933/files/50340561948.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5769/2320/files/fiwitisawilejenatamej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2040/3356/files/raruvozabajifonale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/15125842299.pdf
    • https://jovumisev.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/83574855828.pdf
    • https://tazotezevol.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zakowerira.pdf
    • https://zekipanepu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/31848084673.pdf
    • https://fupiwexobus.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/26748337549.pdf
    • https://vixupidiva.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/53929250321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1241/3851/files/mopewopobuge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0298/6659/files/29458765781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2451/5235/files/60285028493.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0472/3349/files/21226240181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0071/6694/files/77849951588.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8120/3861/files/52649847602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1583/0695/files/68791574687.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_off0000782b.bin
6132c07954b3716d75a727f4b8a48c1aed4c2b3d1bde5c4de1bf910991b11d4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x782B 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008af3.bin
e3c45590ca8070347da1ec59033a027102dbf0edfb52e7782e8528b9c707259c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AF3 10120 bytes