Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c45aeac2c534e58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 10:02:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ebc22e9bebfe60c601540984091a8ed3 SHA-1: 05fbcee41886db345df606ad6aa367b743e4d559 SHA-256: 7c45aeac2c534e582fe60be3ad102ada7eb505d79fa9e75df81b7084ab289199
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for 'gmat verbal review 2019 pdf'. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests an attempt to create a link farm or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier 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.cc/pify?keyword=gmat+verbal+review+2019+pdf
    • http://files.chickenheavenonearth.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695601/3f34d1d.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3468/1250/files/types_of_audio_visual_aids.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8312/8214/files/logic_games_bible_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8986/3580/files/alcatel_lucent_ip_touch_4028_manual_portugues.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2109/8408/files/amravati_mandal_newspaper_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7571/2664/files/muwoviburokixovakib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7435/5351/files/damodaran_valuation_spreadsheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0642/5249/files/90963540572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8332/4822/files/flow_meter_installation_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4424/9499/files/15613046591.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4556/0220/files/31302933273.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/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a76.bin
ce31800ee107011d838edef1904b993a6dd7252265578f64da63bcad676304b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A76 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cdd.bin
59ca1f85c7ccd5378cd5ba75b0d8115d0e774a025995c78b8e298c1ccdadaa88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CDD 10472 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000909b.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x909B 4324 bytes