Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d603ba3b8e9b79c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-08-28 13:23:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9561fea50a146371c849ed7d90e5aaa SHA-1: 97526e9bfb1f2369e243c98380a6e8fe5651c338 SHA-256: 8d603ba3b8e9b79cec74b72ce09b07a3d349012c2a7af11024aec52f18cd02a3
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL as the redirector, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content as educational material. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to lead users to harmful sites.

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.link/pify?keyword=10+s%25C4%25B1n%25C4%25B1f+matematik+yamuk+%25C3%25A7%25C3%25B6z%25C3%25BCml%25C3%25BC+sorular
    • http://lapelef.bcassandra.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453902/pomevevoso-vanopop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2004/1886/files/78914973878.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8826/2821/files/circuits_ulaby_and_maharbiz_2nd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7055/3238/files/97555054731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5523/4710/files/clipping_algorithms_in_computer_graphics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8328/2070/files/artifacts_in_mri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7221/5448/files/91299277254.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1653/4690/files/demolition_expert_fallout_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8028/6372/files/british_council_grammar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9102/4277/files/vajizerap.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_off00004b7b.bin
fb138c96626339c93ee610105789baf36d8f5f6d8f103c7d2db76a37d1e8c494
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B7B 5700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e53.bin
dab69826107fcb06e4143a0e7a19e9b004f478521ea8e1d5ac511a57cba7e8e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E53 12016 bytes