Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 864070d8efc13070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 21:59:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 019c5b4a6f74b0ea103cac92ec187a4d SHA-1: 6880f910a3c908bfffbe8dfe3676f7405727b29d SHA-256: 864070d8efc13070e7cdeb00accb5223d6c8d3daadd54155d223f614d00eefe0
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to "civil engineering book pdf" and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates an attempt to game search engine results for malicious distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=civil+engineering+book+pdf
    • http://safaki.yuacommunitylibrary.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775734/tujubaji.pdf
    • http://files.stpetersaratoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739007/94fe10296ff3a7.pdf
    • http://files.tangoyoung.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438557/wifujifagewifa_guzojo_vapolelaso_duxeraremo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4351/2732/files/definition_of_motivation_by_different_authors.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9832/5663/files/baboxizozabanebosegel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3254/2369/files/cell_differentiation_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0172/4577/files/gosidokudigimonegabozesuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3431/1845/files/47507899136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8585/5897/files/6552723412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4553/6419/files/komofumusumupiwofina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5156/4707/files/kayla_itsines_2._0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2644/6498/files/gopubebeduzevekewovajosap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2812/5595/files/18772867072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6599/4392/files/kenmore_microwave_model_721_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9652/files/parto_por_cesarea_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/besebunuxudozase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6132/1634/files/dekijixujosufam.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_off000064a7.bin
2fa2e10434e7b5cb2b29897842d6dc0f52741032c242136d9ee391c8ef84b821
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64A7 4992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075af.bin
d2bb782f5c88b5953737bfe8b272b9e04f5c94b929360e143c4a22eff085b54a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75AF 10508 bytes