Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eae084315bf1eb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 12:57:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1aec20855195861b7c9005f7ae85f393 SHA-1: 14072f523241f78443bb8914d9cb82c7929b7747 SHA-256: 9eae084315bf1eb15a057993f662f5c38d71190b56cbc3c1083f74f0524aed8d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'study guide' and the malicious URL. This suggests a phishing attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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.cc/wix?keyword=the+believer%2527+s+authority+study+gu
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3741/7891/files/netujigugolurewuterurak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6887/5157/files/divide_decimals_by_whole_numbers_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7863/8999/files/kuka_robot_programming_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2529/9606/files/php_date_with_th.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8040/8474/files/ballarat_to_melbourne_train_timetable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6260/6489/files/thus_spoke_zarathustra_music_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/52665001447.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fc54f51267794afc8cbdc6b3a2ef52f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_10ef68244060448abd7ba5d1a41ddbec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_63b4a5d4864e4a369d15e0ee6b889cbb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_58416ba2f78a4895bab5a49beefad802.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6d1f8fe4a33d46089843b871d05a5bbf.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_off000045ec.bin
9e1f28cf22118f13f88b3789980b6c0bd0e6b12cd8fde7b393da913f9b5f427e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45EC 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005838.bin
ff34351267432013415a92d99fff9ba0ce1d22332d3fc0e0c3825ff1907ad8c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5838 9604 bytes