Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33334e962f5a06de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-09-05 09:00:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c7be8219705fd19bfb6c2c71ae4ff86d SHA-1: 852f8acf300e8e2124b415053b3c1007dc33145f SHA-256: 33334e962f5a06dec4dd38e1619f76ced5388beaa1a111f0bbc52273e41b5617
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a template for a weekly assignment schedule. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests an attempt to obscure the malicious destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics for distribution.

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.me/wix?keyword=weekly+assignment+schedule+excel+template
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8660/1635/files/37512109686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8962/9079/files/electrical_and_electronics_objective_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4095/4778/files/low_profile_platform_bed_frame_full.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7197/7110/files/tajulevovolegor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9289/6920/files/27420036755.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/225520_194a3ed66cca4a3eb69bbf3178e513c6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/31593d_f1250fa2aaca4da892cbd24dfd662454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6240/9881/files/detailed_lesson_plan_in_filipino_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4650/files/berserk_of_gluttony_novela.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7929/3338/files/free_hotstar_for_pc_windows_7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_45196fe3485d4e7aa8fe48fa926bbd1e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce5d00_6a4494c3ef6b4a53b1929d36293e4e48.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_7a8725494abd489ea15928581184af61.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e9fc2_d6047a08d0554a7f9bdf924ec3e1b1ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1c462_bfe1aa264fcb413f9d56ca410f564f3e.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_off0000661c.bin
48dbd6cbaeb7518294d45491dd488a183bd7b0c3fa147a8dbee5804f45fdc990
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x661C 5640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007941.bin
ba571596dd768cc33c17ac6f6db1996c95777361c1a90db158dd1ad94bc7e5e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7941 12804 bytes