Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 764aea0972cd8a45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 03:31:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0beb26e909d9025940e414952e71928 SHA-1: e16b0883ad72efdc83efa80d5273bcc952ee7474 SHA-256: 764aea0972cd8a45eeffb487f849ab1a67ecbe2e245110cc4a01a0cc2ffc62a7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to 'power query book pdf free download' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading potentially harmful content. The presence of multiple Shopify links, some benign and some unknown, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wb?keyword=power%20query%20book%20pdf%20free%20download
    • http://tinizetod.crescentwaves.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/nimanofowatex.pdf
    • http://files.vealsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383953/fibogegiradat.pdf
    • http://files.holyspiritstem.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382030/wopejefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0346/1283/files/wewikato.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6065/8333/files/wuvejafumeko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0235/6127/files/17900690876.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8150/5695/files/dizijefaduxal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0151/1064/files/pifubexisenipuned.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dagezaluvonanapukinuwit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zupapinited.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4603/4853/files/winikorenuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0543/6326/files/7053457587.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5007/4269/files/pogafopufetedik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8797/0975/files/electric_machinery_fundamentals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2597/2904/files/26016749319.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5199/7592/files/lapelilo.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_off00005ffa.bin
3d7fccd38023d38d9299388443986f6c074228bf49f418e9590f38ade8068e36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFA 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000726c.bin
c0def150d102ff1b18e09255a787030a9e24dda0c8650b731891d5a7bf53d8d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x726C 10604 bytes