Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d86961def9737987…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 14:29:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f1e475025c883eeca9cfd58837c72c2e SHA-1: e91fc1f588ee62723f79d1ac72768fe3219b94e5 SHA-256: d86961def9737987bd10146fccf52c04031933abcfb776b09c7316d74c3f5a6e
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a search result for educational materials, likely a lure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content.

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=grade+4+english+textbook+pdf+sri+lanka
    • http://paberok.branfordartcenterct.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776167/likiruzorole_biwijibaxatu_xeridalanosib_wedev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/30112773976.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3102/6071/files/fisica_atomica_e_molecular.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2977/3981/files/busorugoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3385/4101/files/cefalea_hemicranea_paroxistica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2309/6216/files/28682727010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9091/2159/files/59691936414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8149/0847/files/54284971399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9411/4453/files/fowizokibujokufovivam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1760/1181/files/28080050762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32686583269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8998/4674/files/jefelexidonazof.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_off0000ad19.bin
ee5803998735c1c22a974a8b12ac135c979452cf3843e326a788011d58348b81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD19 5692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c088.bin
ef659ec00d01d83169023803227c30e9fd96ffa8821a0587a92fc18e9dad9d6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC088 12200 bytes