Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae89475a33535548…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 05:37:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f856311f8b04a7bb94531fb13a9d373a SHA-1: 5233e28b6c418392068f145016b2a22835158df0 SHA-256: ae89475a3353554852da098eea8f6b445a095ba69b80d4a6287348a4590db7a9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to 'nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences pdf free download' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users seeking academic resources. The presence of a link farm heuristic further indicates an attempt to distribute malicious links.

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.com/wb?keyword=nonparametric%20statistics%20for%20the%20behavioral%20sciences%20pdf%20free%20download
    • http://files.jjwhitememorial.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406211/sodage.pdf
    • http://files.pqassessments.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070619/72b48af3efec26d.pdf
    • http://files.sutterandassociates.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606343/6869718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5214/5560/files/63522267412.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8415/1974/files/texas_drivers_license_restriction_b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3692/5342/files/prodigy_math_play.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2158/9913/files/52704707389.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9235/2928/files/mefagezurobabaxabopebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2790/6206/files/wiweduwafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4405/9806/files/7113463321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3016/7202/files/98046179609.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bewewolifokolugetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9807/0435/files/ludugiki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0877/0726/files/gafefidebiniwekumobozas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2650/5128/files/6325562206.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_off00005875.bin
d833d1e79a903bed73199eec501f2ae15c03b52c9cdb4694d19fe9563944ed24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5875 5656 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b9b.bin
0fbc680f1cd85237d5ff7d74994828bf4728b1d149c25d5b724722aeb3cc6704
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B9B 10204 bytes