Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dace31c03c66ea0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 18:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f5621777efdb98da997652b691c6a9f1 SHA-1: 6e0ad1fbfd25f8284340ff437e8d3872fe173ef8 SHA-256: dace31c03c66ea0d8544c38ba56bdbbad93e3faa0c53f2454486d985e6bd468f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'balance chemical equations worksheet easy' and the malicious redirector URL. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a mass of external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS 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.cc/pify?keyword=balance+chemical+equations+worksheet+easy
    • http://files.doadagny.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455680/midinibuju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6152/files/71552122934.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3459/8809/files/30423900258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dedapefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4874/6651/files/67997239218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0638/5558/files/15191215236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4760/0807/files/sunazikotegebezakikawol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3788/8410/files/aptitude_test_questions_and_answers_of_tcs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5857/8086/files/wot_eu_forums.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1307/8174/files/cooling_tower_maintenance_checklist.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6181/9045/files/bu_jhansi_exam_date_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1718/2104/files/sajupofode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0455/7472/files/astm_steel_table.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_off00008332.bin
a60b5107d666882672165d1146aec8bc15c862cb66918c4cbd5a3f7ac7e05a7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8332 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000095ac.bin
e8f44afff9cf437356224484a15fd98f9b72327cea4bacdd48118b4aaca29b39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95AC 10068 bytes