Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a672e6c776e51098…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-08 14:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e94f70d0cd85986563ef9cb663babd52 SHA-1: 3bf85f675550346267b247c214117a3bcb5fd251 SHA-256: a672e6c776e510989057d28b54177a0f0fc3dcf99b3e5bd2bd8b05cca8cec2e2
154 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 a redirector service. The document body, though malformed, contains text related to 'cost and management accounting short notes pdf' and includes the primary malicious URL. This suggests a phishing or redirection attack aiming to lead 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.ru/pify?keyword=cost+and+management+accounting+short+notes+pdf
    • http://nesidik.villagegreenla.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406258/8673187.pdf
    • http://files.londonloftapartments.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874110/7712857.pdf
    • http://nufejem.rosiefowler.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/gabawojaf.pdf
    • http://files.mollymillerstories.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695491/janusisawu_wigajusuwa_gonezali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0140/4830/files/vuledirulunawelujiluda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2222/9397/files/mabewon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8526/7097/files/86503645910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7960/5147/files/is_trinidad_james_dead.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/22650439267.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8233/3851/files/1596587246.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0921/1557/files/51305814633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8472/files/batubosedopobo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9721/1558/files/pdf_file_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4116/9309/files/botanica_biologia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5575/9011/files/sesewotemijemopomuruw.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_off00006973.bin
8c35014fe058f9d2230a90dabaffc721736cbd1a92a71f1df8a0c7f6e73ec47a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6973 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bce.bin
b1aa45bbbfdab3838cb9bdb0302dca64ae0a3e03e0d576970159fed9ed2f9773
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BCE 10392 bytes