Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 809f10eb2caef7f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 19:00:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2b59e71086720c97e89ea76880095a28 SHA-1: bb4f85cb28eb43e16a51d89f611e63414581bc3f SHA-256: 809f10eb2caef7f0fe39722324370e771a407d0f580ee278d90abe13896f94cf
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a redirector service, which is a common technique for distributing malware or phishing pages. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to a 'mahatma gandhi biography pdf english', likely to entice clicks on the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector attack pattern.

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=mahatma+gandhi+biography+pdf+english
    • http://files.cyber-sec.us/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739404/4066452.pdf
    • http://files.palmbeachdayacademycoralproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164009/7865369.pdf
    • http://files.shotoryujutsukarate.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070792/jivilegewase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0133/1360/files/38742021785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8709/4177/files/andrew_ng_machine_learning_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7719/8229/files/zagevalaposebadez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8849/5270/files/28080980500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2050/9596/files/22431221786.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4645/2899/files/89921361317.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8542/2997/files/79613496908.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0791/7729/files/nopesujiwobisiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1667/4713/files/napopezofawa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1755/8426/files/standard_phonetic_alphabet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5045/8520/files/zarekubimifidosi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3699/9842/files/53531906212.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_off00006a03.bin
e9a0b12a8b970f4f172b55ddff399ab248590c700557f5ce42e4d1b9764e7116
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A03 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d49.bin
94dfda8990a892247aee09c57aa4bb0561b58ada1d0a17d9e68f9b8673a312d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D49 10340 bytes