Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aab32c9ece2de2ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:24:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e9cfb6604d1e0ac7b96dec33e7219194 SHA-1: 390f8a750e25eeb38f5fa3cf216bf5c95b7a24c0 SHA-256: aab32c9ece2de2acc59ec8a50d4b3a5d83e6d8f146a3a8c939ec2d053bc5fcc3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or social engineering attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URLs found in the heuristics, reinforcing the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of a malicious download or phishing attempt.

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=niv+life+application+study+bible+online
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_61a8fd9d557f4068bb5e783080b20db6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_697ac2d4c2194176b0ecb2fa786c6a24.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/493135_f859fb16509e4dee8e038d897372a554.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8e1900_cfe50a7b93024a8db4a3eec9c8fe5c6b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d43733_ca21981156574cec936066ba7a7681d8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4fb05f_abc7262c16dc439f85587e78d9341714.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_69c06a5a9b53400993ba639e43666bdc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d43733_c89ddf91524840db9e60b5375ea9985b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/957c7b_cbec6893fc274fedb5af36b627b7002e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/01e791_71b9962d2fa445549754b478b31e8297.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a052f_0991887cbee84f9ba9a17f0e617ffa03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/30e015_8ecc3e10b3a142368582c845fbd07b61.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/957c7b_ecda1582c08942fdbe1e6cd225fbb90f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e33828_d6227b7ae2804336a789f4779dc69032.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_off00005d48.bin
5a157d1230b1f83f915e8880ca062a3e9e4a4e976efd7b2322cc1b572f14955b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D48 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f89.bin
c253ef065f2efc23773ff0410b9b9df13b809c0eed18b38c15a045374bb618d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F89 11536 bytes