Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34f408f0e3bc589d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 20:43:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7d1e8ad5f5115c558c51cb9b2d45e53 SHA-1: 82618470120e07d27d75d0a4402c5124715ec578 SHA-256: 34f408f0e3bc589dc343bc7302d4ffa88571c66b2fc6d1514f8c8099c3e924f6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for an 'admission form format'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to improve SEO for malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content or phishing pages.

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=admission+form+format+for+computer+institute
    • http://bojuluwi.deborahkeyserdion.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/lokopubuxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3983/4791/files/comprehension_worksheets_ks3_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9346/4990/files/tinker_s_construct_materials.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2704/6298/files/dnd_character_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/rugivadopupemebezagojef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0094/5048/files/hamilton_beach_rice_cooker_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6054/4156/files/majojegesezajo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5613/5334/files/bronchiolitis_pediatric.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3033/1040/files/80019785677.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/58234448346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4591/9652/files/73780229452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4339/6506/files/application_of_computer_in_different_fields.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8970/5625/files/71403624103.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6165/8279/files/fafsa_cheat_sheet.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_off0000498e.bin
c90f8bdd0fd64e803bdcbc8efd4a7fae7331941f6200eb29e22ac3c1a0d7a34a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x498E 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b4d.bin
2c266872721e19e8378aa6a7863b128c2dd9dc59b0224110ebae715e3fdb0d61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B4D 9244 bytes