Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd1f026e9e2bd05f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.6 KB Created: 2020-08-26 07:50:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 142160c1e721d22145f2afed7411b517 SHA-1: 2aa3a9629580c8fd225527942ab8c64864c2957b SHA-256: dd1f026e9e2bd05fe57f99e41a8e8c452ba5dea14f8f10f2c6253ca4d5a97e0a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'perfecting your english pronunciation' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of numerous external PDF links points towards a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic.

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=perfecting+your+english+pronunciatio
    • http://lagumip.ekhaonline.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071164/572f4ccb5.pdf
    • http://files.playtherapyworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775503/xogixo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0641/9367/files/practical_reliability_engineering_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bovegutug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3810/5000/files/pitokarizirin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0237/9939/files/25698810872.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/5636/0600/files/poropafon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8323/5489/files/dokafebevurawetuwazefojez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8814/2743/files/86444287308.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5005/0460/files/25520792936.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0569/7438/files/pawimama.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_off000047e8.bin
50b6492c02c24a50c187fd559b4085bb9e1faf824cc26062286779daa00e77e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47E8 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059c5.bin
2b2daa875bdbe125ca9b4a7a2b6e66cc158cfd801f72a1672c95431cc63ce877
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59C5 9948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007bdc.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BDC 4324 bytes