Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b53fce23f2a15322…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 04:54:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fc168a635dfdd09c7620e09206bd70cd SHA-1: da6cf87203f3cc32feaa927aa2e09faadc942ecf SHA-256: b53fce23f2a1532226cd9303d5fd7f4ecb976c803521b30a0da2287271ed8af6
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=netacad+chapter+9+exam+answers'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking it. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=netacad+chapter+9+exam+answers
    • http://files.hempsteadgirlstf.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636700/pefor-xesekupol-kipobose.pdf
    • http://files.ism-cu.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741029/worupubi-nomutuzam-vegojoberen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8955/1770/files/fadinotisedugav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8068/6491/files/download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7005/3784/files/wadaloduporufinixi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1092/4437/files/multithreading_in_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/fasabebinili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1892/3686/files/ucla_biweekly_payroll_calendar_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1485/6610/files/64734859671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1001/3853/files/nugukukogovawoxuzik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6851/2669/files/building_construction_technology_lecture_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9026/4742/files/37172300137.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2607/1199/files/61801297497.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3801/4616/files/bacteria_definicion.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007e2f.bin
cf0928831fb295b94b7ad853ca5553bd0c2911c1b88f546efbe4e1ed911fd68c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E2F 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008fbb.bin
6aaa9a1c5edf2dd6b4d9c52aefff9ab4d5daf2a2139007e9e45f2b0ed3074e45
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FBB 13624 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000baee.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAEE 4324 bytes