Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 802741fc7943ba2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 04:52:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 22186f9aa63560d987fd66f7d6522f1e SHA-1: e07f61b26dc40f4999fb11eedabfdbeaa2c478b2 SHA-256: 802741fc7943ba2ffc6ac0887bc48eaeafc5fc03a3e48ac9a89050d105e55194
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'reported speech worksheets class 8' and the malicious URL. The presence of a PDF link farm heuristic further suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or traffic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wb?keyword=reported%20speech%20worksheets%20class%208
    • http://files.childrensfocusfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606262/modakizedijomigegime.pdf
    • http://files.pottershouselismore.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453393/975679.pdf
    • http://files.maycontainnotes.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856476/selixorada.pdf
    • http://files.quietlegend.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695633/40a14b0ff7da3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0606/4801/files/88422351639.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7341/3028/files/wujoxatafozigolatusisem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7100/5082/files/33837680259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8967/3883/files/gezukujaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6113/9861/files/xbox_controller_keys.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/15843942414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/depusulolunifanilux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26443777516.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8949/4177/files/73433344157.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2677/5196/files/43165584282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/26433336276.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3096/9511/files/lapuferirigu.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_off00007644.bin
5dcf6aecc2ec400d793972d8fdfeb47c105c9be23492cf05e2f3ee788f7a4ef8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7644 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008914.bin
8146d493a5e2daab79f2de578cb7eaf5be9db043d8e4fae244fe35d1b2a6aae2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8914 9928 bytes