Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9c3467961f0455d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-28 10:05:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e783d1fb5f5d0794e1836653a05b4200 SHA-1: 054586cdc0d49eea23135878edb229db08c3a029 SHA-256: a9c3467961f0455d082c2c94a9ae4a776591028fd5fc215427d25e0f181f0bd0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, disguised as a search result for a technical book. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms the malicious nature of the redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially garbled, contains text related to the book title and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to download content from a compromised or malicious site.

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=machine+design+an+integrated+approach+5th+edition+pdf+download
    • http://files.bible-truths.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813427/zopokinafazen_radojez_rigegelivur.pdf
    • http://files.lansdownefarm.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969545/2755335.pdf
    • http://tolemuno.paloaltoballet.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163898/f36899533b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1637/9816/files/27773998982.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7644/3543/files/acupressure_points.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/8833338052.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7490/3452/files/xamipegurumelox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3986/7559/files/12918879841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1664/9890/files/dilations_and_scale_factors_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3201/0152/files/banking_services_chronicle_june_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0537/0787/files/78319439852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3866/2053/files/jim_aitken_rental_application_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1243/8685/files/85534659058.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_off000087a5.bin
934fdbd9f540d090951bf744b4706521ef797f8f33d676725b88a113b6a95457
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87A5 5640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009ade.bin
c5a63a39650eaf3dd3065d89e69b38ca850c3458930ed70d3de577b06e54109d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9ADE 10192 bytes