Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc0e8f13c8270ea1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 20:44:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ef251601b9a3c3504d353a3c6f603b27 SHA-1: f0f7569031277630d2a1b0db48f02874771415c0 SHA-256: dc0e8f13c8270ea1f241db14a3503bf753253999c1ecc9827a376cbf2315c075
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to its use of a known malicious redirector link and a large number of embedded links, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The document body and metadata indicate it is disguised as 'certified ethical hacker course material'. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads 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=certified+ethical+hacker+course+material+pdf+download
    • http://files.southdublindanceacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406288/xipukax-wovus-jiredimoxo.pdf
    • http://files.williamtmohn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437770/2004458.pdf
    • http://files.theelephantstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775645/gufupumok.pdf
    • http://zetug.sourcegifts.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/tulevabisazugev_pakufo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7548/4313/files/xikuvedirasopupa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9526/1348/files/chasers_of_the_light_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9561/1810/files/36391167495.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9331/9068/files/sajudogokexejeluwidu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1795/3702/files/definition_of_alzheimer_s_disease.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7922/8837/files/22240067419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4475/6901/files/99786063147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4556/1254/files/les_automates_programmables_industriels.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7437/9164/files/judemumebubakivemovagemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7754/1787/files/difuxudixanadudopugup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8763/4338/files/rakigakedonelomujovisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9071/4532/files/xebapefalavixopapawifap.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_off00005512.bin
2d620844fc8ed9d1ad092aa05efda28257db6a01531739fa0d2ed816986a1bb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5512 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006783.bin
346677bca87dbd5e7258b8d5dc9282a882550ae3ab662923485a6e644ea3d2d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6783 10540 bytes