Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3da5959b9ad8ad5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 18:16:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f058f152dc66231c53c02dc2a186e1c3 SHA-1: e43b7773aa7313b996fdcc50e159b52ed059f9fd SHA-256: 3da5959b9ad8ad5e68d578f0af0014fbc6a637f4aca39af764d6f115ed6a6b6b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure related to IELTS preparation materials, designed to trick users into visiting malicious sites. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further stages of an attack.

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=makkar+ielts+speaking+pdf+may+to+august+2020+with+answers
    • http://files.fianzafund.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164456/xonemafuju-metapini-vafojekiwaxulis-viwupakorupon.pdf
    • http://files.onesimplyiris.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874063/5da5b4048dc3.pdf
    • http://files.dimikassari.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738779/6240933.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9672/7962/files/wetelirutaruxokojabunumox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5306/2046/files/farove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8562/5499/files/technical_analyst_interview_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1112/files/lediripibimifaxamalal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7437/9173/files/atresia_colon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1867/3566/files/fabufonaxesiwogemi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6504/8229/files/9874723782.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lufixupiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2182/7222/files/78110106488.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6895/4526/files/xonapesadibuwurixediz.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_off000065ba.bin
e723246077340a019b2dad56a5937d7bf89a0d37d95560b14524812ec1594343
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65BA 5992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a23.bin
a55e7410c6b1b13661b1f770e3fb96404797fecc5b8afd0a6b8e5db7533c35ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A23 10052 bytes