Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc6f32530905f3a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-07 15:17:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2fe5f380dbf92e6a1e524ff67a47ee40 SHA-1: fcf51c9fb9f1dfedb745ac7c4d4168bc7ff6ed96 SHA-256: dc6f32530905f3a1c7673a111a1503da8425cb1649b984923e453c3fece624a0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a PDF related to 'aprendizaje social y desarrollo de la personalidad'. The presence of many external links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=aprendizaje+social+y+desarrollo+de+la+personalidad+libro+pdf
    • http://files.katyhawkinsyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482931/mitireko-fametajamudu.pdf
    • http://files.agelessfitness.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741293/f0659a.pdf
    • http://files.agapeministry.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695194/sumetedona-xularago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5986/3961/files/reading_a_text_file_in_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4082/8566/files/83_monte_carlo_ss.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2926/4546/files/sosefukixepax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6089/5650/files/bibireboro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3151/0690/files/rozasoveranidikomiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2950/3901/files/agenda_2020_french.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0123/4076/files/90859780087.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0571/4338/files/3662868224.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4988/6620/files/35617159702.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5987/9841/files/43701272189.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7618/0376/files/organic_chemistry_jones_5th_edition_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5802/8959/files/92697473654.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_off000059d4.bin
4545cc5b3e21b6c6b7210c1a1424998c1b0c873472f62c63a7d30f843343b2fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59D4 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cb1.bin
603e3448130e37faee09f861621015a5840c8585d20fe1e36136422345a53381
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CB1 11432 bytes