Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddb51d45e6a5ffc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 03:42:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fbaf3c2087894b34e30236feccd9b0d7 SHA-1: edccdeadba1f8ceeaa530157678ca8037889f7fa SHA-256: ddb51d45e6a5ffc75f285351f6464af8cdc8b3f6af5aaae0dde2322543c92419
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, disguised with keywords relevant to a tutorial. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms the malicious nature of the redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and keywords suggesting a lure.

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=android+studio+java+tutorial+pdf
    • http://posome.kristenwambach.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/7d7f0e397e25b22.pdf
    • http://files.ucssp.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712306/5d8956f.pdf
    • http://voduf.ginwgolf.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/porepomoliruw.pdf
    • http://dofetago.midwestpark75.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606027/928cb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6854/5441/files/94806619391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3927/6699/files/unisa_payment_methods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8697/8984/files/dikikifepojetekofodivot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3538/6265/files/13103580022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4530/6011/files/ganarofokopotokogazon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2847/2220/files/49666204304.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1816/6167/files/favosemamosowurazunoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8251/3561/files/momatuvazimavesunofidexuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9365/5716/files/auto_body_repair_manual.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_off0000e9b6.bin
2efd0bf3fa24217a1ac788f680482f7b81a909b464a7a55ba029c114f2b22143
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B6 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5d.bin
7f9c64584632db775dd3f8795a76e5edec83400c7ac535d07ae3f40a6c549b24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5D 14948 bytes