Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9e764b0cb44ce65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.8 KB Created: 2020-09-04 01:48:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e7986740b03701c1201d67149227a5c0 SHA-1: 3bc5eedd44a59c6072b79daa7c1ad7e019143548 SHA-256: a9e764b0cb44ce65dacadfe692753edb4133cb07699bde8ee7dc5699afcbaf9c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a prominent link disguised as educational content, directing users to a malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to exploit SEO techniques to attract victims. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely leading to a phishing page or malware download.

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.me/pify?keyword=big+ideas+math+algebra+1+workbook+answers
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63f22d_431db03eea1345eaa4f215e325e163c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/516574_593b5065b75149a5bd191d321ad8ac6d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d79848_f4e7cdf4609c45478a3c7a26377db5a3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b604d_b060c17710434a7cb07af27a955a9aaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4947/6518/files/lulilu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5627/5360/files/91076117711.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2074/6906/files/waxofemesevebizeguta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/febipak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2313/0009/files/69819132017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2740/6746/files/compressing_files_illustrator.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf79db_059156e923fe4b98a09bec121931648d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4c7633_2d9f96f8d2af4f5b873a5c9fdebd8320.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f0e51d_d65058ae0ae9417fa6947c35294a5ca7.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_off00009720.bin
c016fe8b904dde4dc62038f22cb1b74993dfcc79f63e5e58da28cc87b18bdb84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9720 5636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aa38.bin
ac8b6e7c888cad90e5ada890c441822d3bb918a56d32b4d630dcc4453e0cf5e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA38 10480 bytes