Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cac586b3f730f39f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:28:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0e631f330271aea84ac9fb61aa6220dd SHA-1: 3a207a0f0426eeac3ea787ecd2f3ed12d020e571 SHA-256: cac586b3f730f39fc17f5f76a5b2fb4475994bb6579cdae3462ad47f24186c5c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same URL and keywords suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content as educational material. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=algebraic+expressions+class+7+worksheets+with+answers+pdf
    • http://files.turnerintottenham.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398244/3993996.pdf
    • http://files.48kgs.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871614/golenaj.pdf
    • http://wosug.mercedesclubindia.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681513/7295df836481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gomejalubewetilukifij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1332/5471/files/puvobufiruzepo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5168/7848/files/peketuwawiradawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/college_panda_sat_grammar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5456/3477/files/47261852925.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9747/3699/files/51137237712.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8385/8073/files/73951517680.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/92835403356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5317/0334/files/scantron_answer_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7824/5781/files/22305679039.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1420/7134/files/32777373422.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_off000096ed.bin
10518e942974eba18e75c878f147da5616d1a2bc145ab28ffdacf3b7d4f26719
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96ED 5848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aae7.bin
df0551c53d0dc8a526cdc1b7cea2647c75493e8d0396386257bb3d76dc27de89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAE7 14820 bytes