Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf2a1f6de49460c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.9 KB Created: 2020-09-18 14:48:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1f5b907ac104b909cb66365826e73c88 SHA-1: 7091d3c605519bfcc1278d2f2674c336d7b1d356 SHA-256: bf2a1f6de49460c6cae098333195ff4878c0ce98bae3faeb1a025f2855dda89c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors. One prominent link, disguised as a 'physical science textbook answer key', leads to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure URL, reinforcing the social engineering attempt.

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.link/wix?keyword=physical+science+textbook+answer+key
    • http://wivetife.ginetteandmichaeladopt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739393/4272448.pdf
    • http://fajemu.arcataautocenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857782/welerakamamore-fakezizo-xuviv.pdf
    • http://duvaf.sugarvedelmiesmunkavedelmikft.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131859527/gaved_lofimedokow_tiwunadise_kabiruwakalupen.pdf
    • http://finof.mycountyparks.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164319/ragom-xoser.pdf
    • http://files.jackdogproductions.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637104/b34816d.pdf
    • http://zitug.ormistoncollegemusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607254/fagutuwux.pdf
    • http://wuduju.kupskorner.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454762/nozixapeninogege.pdf
    • http://gezigatoj.newarkvalleychamber.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681947/rezovelipu.pdf
    • https://3543ef8a-762b-4877-85ca-e5e49b8b6d61.filesusr.com/ugd/479fa9_fc3a0d0cb31c4128ab9924a677a0e663.pdf?index=true
    • https://32a7813d-331e-4241-b7c2-caa746d9d9f2.filesusr.com/ugd/9c0842_4623f31d58ba429cbe3a3acc195b70a5.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off00004d8a.bin
1085bd74cae9a992b3b31a7819bde4ca70a63d8778534b855f0d4c9f67d3aa8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D8A 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005fd8.bin
c45194b122dfa10b7bd78753b934a500dfa2cd403f5bde78179f9b53b50d59a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD8 10376 bytes