Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8afea91337ea4172…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-07-29 20:17:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3ca674f64b753512d19ef4187d1d5bc SHA-1: fbf5d22d7449667f58bee01f1c7de6625969c081 SHA-256: 8afea91337ea417270e984367fb5fdd3a347bdfc1db9ee2c9b525da3faf3374a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, disguised as a free English course. This is further supported by heuristics indicating a malicious redirector link and a PDF link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an English course, reinforcing the lure.

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=curso+de+ingles+basico+para+principiantes+pdf
    • http://files.kidsneedyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398085/25798.pdf
    • http://files.irvinedodream.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813837/1281371.pdf
    • http://files.weldcountymeatgoats.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410685/zonaz_zazeko_beturo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gadawatozuwagujezudoru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2908/5859/files/29838006993.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2772/6489/files/ruxavep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8904/9238/files/wadanewubevujoxurapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0762/2824/files/78485238466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1358/7623/files/96095578870.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3037/1739/files/89314624624.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/megoxidojixugapilanaseg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5255/4657/files/1533059648.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2775/1321/files/16926553258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5796/1374/files/89886585211.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2686/6599/files/49170721297.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8904/9238/files/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000076e8.bin
0fbb71dd55f4d007fb26d2cf97ae95b5463ebe59d35d8b01ad7be3ae15a9d7b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76E8 5368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000892f.bin
e33a32087ef6dbab2e43d3df5bf0d1323fbc30a9d29e0f3afac14ff9c3888cc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x892F 11168 bytes