Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28ec4df97a6cde5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 23:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e4b6ba14cb5787f61574ef0b31389e28 SHA-1: 80a0d1781efa3ffb466e93a654e1c23993576b7d SHA-256: a28ec4df97a6cde5ee47e223980daf4e442a563177a2d1d6f28fa1b55d078fa9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a book download, which is a common social engineering tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm further supports this. The document body contains metadata and a URL that aligns with the malicious redirector.

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=agriculture+field+officer+book+pdf+download
    • http://files.barrons-conferences.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409170/3066792.pdf
    • http://files.supernaturalentertamitedproductions.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607043/3028144.pdf
    • http://files.move2centerstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384605/ludakasebimizile.pdf
    • http://files.alexanderassociatesllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483685/bb51e77dd0c781a.pdf
    • http://files.psnwrug.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969708/d18864965128.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7675/4344/files/suruxefowuneperip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9197/5580/files/66821257812.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5402/3327/files/vagarefarolezonenegolorov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2340/8032/files/89111379446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9357/1224/files/yah_trick_ya.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9391/6837/files/zijegisupazepojev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9121/2950/files/84277922559.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3590/7480/files/momokawujusiba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vinupagudesezubinu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4248/0021/files/85138287421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8282/5371/files/47161319528.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_off0000654b.bin
0365c552088281297cdb0d33c68237532d527fb9d214d20b5f43ae73ef72db6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x654B 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077e7.bin
c0ec7289895340887b9396e763937b90c9ca2c40b52116631ad76f91a3bc2b33
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77E7 10196 bytes