Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84ad818872167723…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 14:12:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f8fe9f5b90351c34582f4ef4a5d32a45 SHA-1: 1368c238e814161099d0250f7a8423dae99487ff SHA-256: 84ad8188721677231a4e11ace16caa89255b77a51e83cf235e49c3669cbec6f3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as educational material, but the primary link redirects to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though malformed, contains the URL that leads to the malicious redirector, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=multiplying+fractions+worksheets+pdf+4th+grade
    • http://files.jwhitch.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163687/a81c6.pdf
    • http://basojubaj.ulessor.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695306/0646a1.pdf
    • http://files.artofextensions.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814980/voburadazavepep-gezisunilowu-sorodivomojiw.pdf
    • http://files.goldcrestpolychem.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/nesiwidewo.pdf
    • http://files.carlabaku.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740414/8688825.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7679/5030/files/90249006698.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/fomuxinobililazudi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2685/6601/files/calendario_serie_a1_basket.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9304/1053/files/63132492065.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6693/2902/files/5268325120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9261/5073/files/74629181443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7066/8453/files/20353140144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7867/4584/files/richard_bandler_the_ultimate_introduction_to_nlp.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0721/2694/files/84466380811.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2134/3647/files/greek_bible_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2670/8640/files/detailed_software_design_document_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2232/6696/files/9822225628.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_off00007559.bin
049e486c28800022eb8a71ca7ae4b7fd816ba1562789074cc799a923bbcba259
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7559 5768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008914.bin
172aa4601f2acac97a2d77b64aa99a30fd1c6f82dc69e53246fa713838bd8e8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8914 9952 bytes