Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fd2fbb38a13fe37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 15:41:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 19f90f63755cc919f88faf28376a309d SHA-1: a5f69b730d0108aa65296b32b6c5df6370b49b3a SHA-256: 8fd2fbb38a13fe3779b41b4a7fc780ba0e61a97fb1f46ba1b43d243825fa2d44
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, disguised as an answer key. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this, and the ML classifier also flagged the document as malicious. The document body contains the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering attempt to trick the user into clicking the link.

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=classifying+real+numbers+mystery+pattern+answer+key+pdf
    • http://files.duraesenterprise.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438231/fukulubinolebow.pdf
    • http://files.superdopemin.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682070/3c2bac.pdf
    • http://files.workscapeartisans.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680986/1281410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5497/9477/files/kodifutenetozeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6132/1634/files/52199744466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1641/files/xebowuxitunuzokodaposu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2652/0986/files/anterior_pituitary_hormones.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0623/8613/files/97210337655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5018/9478/files/naberelinurivesipu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7052/9436/files/xepojidokizuwal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3464/files/dogebegotidalawixafapar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8401/files/19636081853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4633/7693/files/58822563347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7729/4498/files/78950839475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6284/4837/files/add_page_break_in_jspdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46150969179.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_off00005be8.bin
a1a822ee61b140e6badcd7ff499fded9071d460ed6e8322c40ab5665807ee0eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BE8 5664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f2e.bin
e60c3234c520c682e015b1e95f6c410cbfe9d91f4a5e95eb4a7eb59334726ee2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F2E 11244 bytes