Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bede9f7df01d3e86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-09-06 07:44:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 21706edf71a6edeb4691337a5e4de2b5 SHA-1: fe4dce920ca8b019760754f27b840798d89fff06 SHA-256: bede9f7df01d3e86c0f6f71596b22e7ca147295d6c4273b8b4b5f6a4e0a92493
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link that leads to a URL with a keyword suggesting a lure for general knowledge questions. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The PDF also functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to external resources, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

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.club/wix?keyword=general+knowledge+questions+and+answers+2019+sinhala
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2303/1720/files/lubujamodudipegum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/razikeruranofe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0821/files/70196268454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5583/9382/files/88321607331.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2644/6498/files/merriam_webster_premium_apk_4._2._0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2827/4585/files/zaweguvojinaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2940/4567/files/dalep.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05301a_6f76697cc0be4f6cbc3789c2ee34c3cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/384ea4_7538b2c11ce5493482ba015e50f4d4ca.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8873/1543/files/84106114064.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7256/6936/files/ball_pool_billiards_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1530/6405/files/fimukidomowuzijapenofobip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6830/9152/files/63900136937.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1380/5992/files/wumemexubof.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_off000044f4.bin
4b2ce3723edaccc060f41f302eedb1144b3d95510f23cd96ab95520fb62a4d51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44F4 5884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058bf.bin
868ccb2ab90c4eb7e3f6cedf4703db70b3fb349edc6f6522990a3a904377b819
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58BF 13300 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007c91.bin
1fe70b491ee7889b1ef4d43872e94aa0f842f47cc4af4b10021a933f61aacfd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C91 9932 bytes