Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f2e313aadf998a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 15:55:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e6f621e804812b23d09ca0d1086da329 SHA-1: 7360523e326c5864aee3c2999116016297793e24 SHA-256: 8f2e313aadf998a8911a37d25bba5dfff8bf599e1a82031e0ad579fb3dca07ca
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector URL, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning attack. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references academic material to lure victims. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the presence of a link to known malicious infrastructure.

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.com/pify?keyword=cambridge+ielts+8+reading+test+5+answers
    • http://burar.brushlove.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398252/a1449382fdf3d.pdf
    • http://rilusa.aahsanguilla.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407592/8354997.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8368/5274/files/bofotop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3092/9827/files/pawuzumuwojumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8113/8343/files/yahoo_email_client.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5366/2883/files/lavideromabefuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3164/1762/files/31231908082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3384/6183/files/penaje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6329/5650/files/baghban_movie_title_song_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5080/files/powobojiloxojudewelupiga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1197/3799/files/video_editing_android_no_watermark.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5415/3371/files/internationalization_of_philippine_higher_education.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5529/2322/files/bill_of_sale_ga_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4892/files/fezunanamuruxavalopulan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8909/0977/files/43849101973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0084/5720/files/97052772029.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_off00009702.bin
44574b35f8252bba652864f2b3650fa94f075c130d5847d7d4168acb1ec4643a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9702 5600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aa07.bin
afadb5966e02fb5f4e3fb158bd45f9016153b67472b775de6cdbee8e8cfc5229
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA07 10292 bytes