Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d11c0188680547d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 20:51:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3237b6eecd5a51a56b89ef8ff9489c6f SHA-1: a6fb8cf7c3b883c88bad4555858e919f90d2de9c SHA-256: d11c0188680547d4bc5647e7030d3a190f6b3f474fb81cb49fb668af7525143e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with the primary link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Lcci level 3 question answer 2017' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking on the malicious link. 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/wix?keyword=lcci+level+3+question+answer+2017
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5193/2056/files/reflection_and_refraction_of_light_class_10_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7215/1959/files/75833963269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/zetegudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6548/1118/files/watavugot.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_56b804a908ab43a5a2669e288ce001d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5275b60d53e04940a0f0ca0851ebc307.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0fdb6d_b35cdc462a29424480bb7ecba0360e20.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2f201087b05741799dd12326d283ecb9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_29ad22c65e514da99772012ea466b01c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d5604d5f2d7741efba6f247756932ddc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/286fb8_b531ef40decc4a0594d4c5d11c4c2eee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/08fe48_e768dad50ebf4854887350800bd5a71b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_02aa42f81d644e0993de17950c2cb1a6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/0831/9641/files/genotype_phenotype_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7556/7777/files/sibexutumodi.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_off00005162.bin
95ada6e12176e1158bf4cd62a2f6debdf8d63917018d4e6f72d643b243eaefac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5162 3300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d36.bin
b568b2aa268681e4dc8cfd05a76b0756ce96e34e5abe73d628530ebd54588800
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D36 5580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007064.bin
8da5766e7643c31cf4661efbfa2213ddc7611950dbfc36ce7f9d956a06253209
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7064 10108 bytes