Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a019ef5ecd4bfcbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 16:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 26301a4065a47b2a491e20610a20194f SHA-1: d307791e16f6ce3553993ef11ba56e2c10464568 SHA-256: a019ef5ecd4bfcbf214267bdd043bb33c82e4f6c5190f5ae8556e7e310238a9e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a critical heuristic for containing a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=core+java+syllabus+by+oracle+pdf'. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other embedded links.

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/pify?keyword=core+java+syllabus+by+oracle+pdf
    • http://files.mew3mew.studio/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636828/fd096a73.pdf
    • http://files.shellknoblakegirl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776272/zewakirulizowidaboda.pdf
    • http://files.dkarbor.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814280/jikijefozonoj.pdf
    • http://files.mrsboyds.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681851/be8c3b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7804/8151/files/41057193322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3462/4679/files/wupuledenuzezinika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8283/3308/files/duwevewenoxixumipapinelad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1560/2339/files/21200487429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30549310566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6986/6141/files/49686447080.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5689/7947/files/sesebixatoju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4889/files/12611645359.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0471/5427/files/47601486136.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b8e.bin
07be9e62b6d5681ad9b846cbce9835e183422d78f3b16a5729d5fa0327a165c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B8E 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d61.bin
42e7c5d970a606d3354ae2e228f30b9eecb43d08e5400666adbbdc6661fab628
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D61 9964 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008f5f.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F5F 4324 bytes