Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e048a6c3f263a3ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-07-18 20:47:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2020-09-04
MD5: 4c95cb356e0799410c9ae8d7b2adbba5 SHA-1: 6073c876bd5b74d2bf3c1162e2190834bed9605b SHA-256: e048a6c3f263a3baa5bc24ce6885e7656746bb375f790885f7d90a87ee511871
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'oracle ebs interview questions pdf'. The primary attack vector involves tricking the user into clicking a link that leads to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.com/wb?keyword=oracle%20ebs%20interview%20questions%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.alex-chien.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606268/8618474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.athenskey.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453735/zovedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coleman4wcsb.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682819/sawagigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fiawashburn.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070491/xatubodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kirkbeeler.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381706/zevalisigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.devizesphab.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776046/najukezoneb_zewuxemikafid_litusemukunila_zesitesusemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hiddenacredanes.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696351/sivofevazadozo-fufojobag-xozamaluwekuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tatibevilacqua.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453897/4584805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://tokisize.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/woninukesuvumomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xodilufuva.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/ziwupegepebusapixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegivebef.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/fufuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jizamegiwona.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/folawipaziwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tagitigupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74098669839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3065/9750/files/57732345233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2028/8153/files/tenaxosojusarivivukefeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9099/2549/files/teziropuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/40323832667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mirogorozizodixomalejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1096/5147/files/6395846813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2550/files/rujuzivixurisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000077a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77A1 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 7f55d3fd8bb912dd861193aaa3b883f3fd638e1f43be215ba3a394d36c0a77db
font_01_sfnt_off00008a52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A52 10356 bytes
SHA-256: baac39a90fa1a33604b5276251cc576529b742a18fdfdfecfb5901c002c2248b