Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf04809e2f2ab212…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-09-02 02:03:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 32f0566837edd223e05f648091c5cd1e SHA-1: 8b88ad45f9902b0aedbf5434d7139a0c6672ed61 SHA-256: bf04809e2f2ab2124598fa77db3fb8d5e07acda44841b851eda44a131cf23721
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a known malicious redirector, disguised as information about university tuition fees. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and the presence of the URL in the document body strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded URLs point to a social engineering attack.

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/pify?keyword=cavendish+university+zambia+tuition+fees+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b7290_0b1b7ce7b4ab4e6b8f28a2ae9bb9af92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a5b6b2e2ebab4cee956829f534e28626.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18574e_80ec9af15074414384cf7626d920fdcd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5bb01c_79f0745e552747468302a1d147d74362.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/361f4b_0e22379b55a641e4a179ab63935a93f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_941cb09722124005a9a745a8750c1b6b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d307585f8fdc43e7ab79e7c39acc6d58.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3f59f_d0585a30f7a944d680b1d40b0b1c46e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_66def0301fec4b8982a9bcd60fb46537.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8762/5369/files/albinismo_tratamiento.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3153/5509/files/biceps_workout_chart_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/8678/2104/files/lalojikewobubujola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1750/1852/files/8000942269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1416/8487/files/92183942646.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b458b3bc71f041ed8de160528ca3fe6f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a0905b_5940c20d7fc847cc86e7b2558473a515.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_off00006b2a.bin
46db712d7b932e4033de61afab09d8b7eb9edead0c45fbb6bec61d0cfea896ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B2A 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007dc7.bin
d37ced7caec0cc2f364a8182351c0a5f8eef8a4cc2fc7949e999a8fec3cd2620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DC7 15476 bytes