Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b3b5a5068b6d14b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.3 KB Created: 2020-07-25 14:29:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3155c6940445a8b13e20e5a667e279ec SHA-1: c846a54c4df07730203513a1b48b77305398d0c3 SHA-256: 8b3b5a5068b6d14bbfb52a95584b8b674662d8d61d151d9582ba474b143d68ae
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a link farm, which is a common tactic for distributing malware or phishing content. The link is presented as a 'Harry Potter sorting quiz answers' to entice clicks. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external PDF links supports a malicious redirection 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.cc/pify?keyword=harry+potter+sorting+quiz+answers
    • http://files.safelysweettreats.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383251/4115410.pdf
    • http://files.pranav-prakash.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775055/6236842.pdf
    • http://files.aletalederwasch.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741476/kofuponinid.pdf
    • http://files.mrflamm.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969637/f08325b435f302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dijev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7249/5519/files/bosapafarafegax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3126/3394/files/17866759505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1249/7313/files/13578847969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6629/2389/files/bijerejem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1667/4713/files/93595064117.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1415/0553/files/xitivipetijusoxofuzopopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6009/files/96093393282.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5246/4293/files/81398816320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/laxefasigapabaxirasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3901/4562/files/jizovoxaxefofusogefak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9386/9223/files/xesibidurikovejedemoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9620/1629/files/84634884981.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_off00008b07.bin
b8a70655f141aed39a350836bfd714b29d76223efc5da5d3eda1e5e472ef3522
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B07 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009cc6.bin
a024a57a5e0a7b7f235046ca6c64f2e4a0d650da1525247d8aa11122a90de165
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CC6 10368 bytes