Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4550098d85dbfab5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 18:07:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 081d1c6db41123aec76b31797ef07b72 SHA-1: b2fac1287357dcc57359ea99477162c3574eb3e0 SHA-256: 4550098d85dbfab5838394c97f0741333599653f9861c803646ce784763541bd
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains a URL that appears to be a lure for educational content, but it also points to a malicious redirector. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel users to further malicious sites.

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.ru/pify?keyword=activity+6+electric+field+simulation+answers
    • http://files.ponokaiownerrentals.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740011/9755198.pdf
    • http://sovujel.shreemarblesmumbai.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406436/3410678.pdf
    • http://files.alfredofatale.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606694/2ba0a4c.pdf
    • http://files.zakeryrey.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455621/nuxetaxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6545/8336/files/ugly_book_electrical.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6222/9157/files/50972113621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2313/0009/files/1321832290.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9359/9132/files/cognos_11_active_reports_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7974/6201/files/callan_method_book_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4658/3976/files/37329625667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/omb_a_122.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8683/0998/files/vafawulogageli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4038/1855/files/fonole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7877/9047/files/pijotasijanolufujusofif.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_off00005f43.bin
f2d08249bb32f273be62bcc725be7f442d89bb517144e6d266e7b320bb51ba43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F43 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000722e.bin
f362f52c0347087a6cf8de57d2794d3dc1545bd27b678e244e45bcb542ab9402
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x722E 10424 bytes