Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 976e8b6c8937a1a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-28 12:14:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 197c5153135a1a143539198f2b7b9dae SHA-1: 778c1951c4cc8624a1d0d9dafe33a4dce91ee4d4 SHA-256: 976e8b6c8937a1a6b5a5c42ba470669ee6219e0fb1d663b70467154c0bd0a111
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination or to generate traffic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the redirector URL, reinforcing its role in the attack.

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=looking+at+student+work+protocol
    • http://files.oldsaybrookeducationfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874266/49381ab.pdf
    • http://files.butterflyposturalchair.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856713/kufaxadesotumumepa.pdf
    • http://zemepo.kyocreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856214/zudumazesagib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4681/4374/files/blitzer_college_algebra.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3239/6447/files/3711294162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3802/3581/files/minecraft_songs_i_am_believing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4339/6506/files/xojamubetewuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8499/7025/files/zuxawisedonisuxuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4030/9402/files/sawifoxivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8433/9613/files/27545948488.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/nijasanito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0008/6180/files/what_does_kosher_food_mean_yahoo_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2553/8980/files/sufonis.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_off0000605a.bin
f21a08a2466ccb3a1b5d64d24515238161e49d33c1add59f6838caf3ca477ddb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x605A 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072aa.bin
2e9dede99dfab3fb80b46516627b27bf09da81b3cff2caa5d8761546d3bdcffb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72AA 10768 bytes