Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e2c31d5f24d5656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-09-13 00:52:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: db96955fc4bc9bd5f07c429bf8474b51 SHA-1: 2e515bfe8646e28ffddaa382827a223c03ab57d7 SHA-256: 9e2c31d5f24d5656d861dfd9dde9ecbd3ad1b013c49ebb8cfaa9bc58910ab18c
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 of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, and the ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary malicious URL, which is likely used to redirect users to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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.me/wix?keyword=fundamentals+of+statistical+and+thermal+physics+solutions
    • http://files.academy44.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776049/futaduzavujuferoduk.pdf
    • http://busiziz.arlenespiegel.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/kufurijiter_fuxodatizozuda.pdf
    • http://files.moskatero.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071019/1696266.pdf
    • http://files.commentsarebanned.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969897/7a6f3577ae76a8.pdf
    • http://files.trueyoufitnesstraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969158/9883907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6727/7469/files/kuditejutuwobopazev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2887/9272/files/68323602092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6886/6214/files/suddenlink_tv_guide_beckley_wv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3631/0693/files/anabolic_fasting.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2732/files/suvimevetoxowuwogikutone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5423/4785/files/tapavo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1937/0659/files/diwanujufetetijiti.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_off00004e2f.bin
17ac861cb1ef0025a8f1fd9524e1a49ac6d37f4a89c7ce0a6bc7f9c36d391cee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E2F 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000609e.bin
9aa1cc271d4ee6275e257a454bcd1a5ac7bb79113dd1fd96cbb60ac6473bc3ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x609E 10472 bytes