Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af021d639a2c60d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 11:08:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 150c861e0b4a6ea79abcf1bc0da50dae SHA-1: b7b1fb80f72ab15fbc59ff6767ad03aaee7b70cb SHA-256: af021d639a2c60d8641c5acdee173a56deb76ab2d9f651e46e859078dd6fa227
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'teaching business english lesson plans pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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/pify?keyword=teaching+business+english+lesson+plans+pdf
    • http://files.thelovelyphotographers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814238/retasabu.pdf
    • http://xidon.agavemag.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164574/gorovibovimaw.pdf
    • http://files.sierramcguireart.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857117/8737168.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7036/5602/files/business_and_commercial_awareness.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1179/3315/files/wineteguludesedakunime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8038/4674/files/nakes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0879/3510/files/vefovekonunufumerilifani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4070/0578/files/luvuzuko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9596/4328/files/el_angelus_oracion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/kavevubitofuvujum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7228/0981/files/visaporuvozemijokifufixuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0252/5856/files/bosimopefugudix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/59064411589.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_off00008af6.bin
bbb4c536ab4d03fc0923f771ff8c56dce412b6dcd35fa0bdce63edd6a6eb055d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AF6 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009d4b.bin
cdc94adbf321b86462b2eb8889d4289e56d04d94a8499742ccd8c5326c23d875
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D4B 10672 bytes