Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0e38d2db28731e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 17:02:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e1491dbc42243faaec1859d78180798a SHA-1: c6e6333ce96169e79b8db704d1ffcd5864dcd3fa SHA-256: d0e38d2db28731e3acc28b0478a30ad7d7c7b41e1e347456d1971508b202487e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text related to academic PDFs and the malicious URL. This suggests a phishing or SEO poisoning attack where users are lured to malicious sites under the guise of downloading academic materials. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further execution chains.

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=mathematical+statistics+with+resampling+and+r+pdf
    • http://files.freedomdolphindiving.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680994/244417b38e2a6.pdf
    • http://teval.bjustudentlife.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696030/d2689e5ae4c7.pdf
    • http://lazizi.ljdixon.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969656/4697858.pdf
    • http://nigobo.wickedchillplymouth.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636855/5762857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/81737927149.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3947/2288/files/ansi_ashrae_standard_55.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7587/1654/files/fidijadoseze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0500/8293/files/57258535929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8022/4663/files/adsorption_physical_chemistry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3866/2053/files/sotetafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0301/0468/files/wepinedoboguse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4438/7481/files/cider_house_rules_cast.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1574/0312/files/mathematical_programming_steven_vajda.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_off0000717d.bin
75fb3a1fee810aa0641a96d294163c4db619846346b5769d141e189a4de0e27a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x717D 5668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084b8.bin
909e955ccc6de8d8a6f14acfb9d3b2dbca570d2e1f73deb18cc0758bb6c326d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84B8 9480 bytes