Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0aa42d0917a4818…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.0 KB Created: 2020-09-04 12:26:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d696937bd33f3b90fdbb794e053d835 SHA-1: 3d74a51ff238bb62bdd420b23a47a7650726329d SHA-256: a0aa42d0917a4818bd4a75107869227d6ab102c26a164996cab783560962534f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised with keywords related to educational answers. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, likely as part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.link/wix?keyword=nvq+level+3+business+administration+unit+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/8638/4023/files/direct_loan_master_promissory_note.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0329/7437/files/8797215418.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7382/2115/files/zefunimelijodope.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9bd8c3_6fea3593fb79461abbc4c7d1b9ac35ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/277b62_3da9253aa39a4757a9892e4e5bd99658.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/13132773261.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7578/8182/files/engineering_economic_analysis_10th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6332/0469/files/tilarewetuwejomudefobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6214/0826/files/50886901389.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6028/2023/files/biogas_installation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1983/7333/files/wutewusudamonisijos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1049/0519/files/wonerilokewepesala.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_off000095a5.bin
58a7c253e5a1c641db0507c555759e8d15d7d3254bdef3a551afbf41cb60f57d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95A5 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a866.bin
868c2e2a7eb8ade034bd3321ff6b07a4c7c57f1553ba740a17b42035c95e3fc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA866 9996 bytes