Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb06fb93fdfb8d49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 21:37:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 23685d1815ef61c5498a8c8a351c3f88 SHA-1: 2f602d7afb47c904913de654a85b414ec16b0272 SHA-256: bb06fb93fdfb8d497660ff93eece5b3a65a2e2622e8498e27df03ee440351f5e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a known malicious domain, likely intended to trick the user into visiting a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a physics lab report and includes the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify and static.usrfiles.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to disguise the malicious redirector.

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/wix?keyword=hooke%2527+s+law+physics+lab+report
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/1512/6422/files/zefoganebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2230/0822/files/96768403371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1658/5379/files/26532529821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/3060/3932/files/92439249304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2651/4077/files/mastering_autodesk_inventor_2015.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_808f5e4e469544c9a9b318165073737b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_33b5473b48854912a814f3597e7a1539.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b9a87_2625eb0834ca45ad8f1985dd9fccd816.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/277b62_7897d25603ed4617814f3e432fb5c664.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_945b6f7220ff415db9fb288c663fedef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5415a_c612c41c1de74fdca31fc0ff6115f1d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2c34b226dfc8471f97b5ecd5984c7e33.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/856cea_d73b1dff514b485cb9705f0b8396ed49.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a48928_9749e13e13b84d28a70d3e274f388496.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_255247082a2043cfad4a63756a91029a.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_off00005fdf.bin
631582079e14131f39699d28335b461962b4fed03d3a30e7f97fdd88f8e7920b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FDF 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000725a.bin
99da63ecdd6529e7712d34c8987f4fb12bcdbd3075338878ce1a6b4290311d99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x725A 11096 bytes