Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e653fbb32c549bc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:27:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d0402868d45a2ac82289da7a347be143 SHA-1: 2e679a7e9086fdc4cfc68a3619df3d50ba8f4649 SHA-256: e653fbb32c549bc9953830b79b3ea9472fcf5b25988e2c35ac6d3f07ba36d83a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the one identified by the heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to lure users to harmful sites.

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/wb?keyword=present%20perfect%20continuous%20and%20past%20simple%20exercises%20pdf
    • http://files.bhaktiyogi.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437276/2033441.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fikikotiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5488/1185/files/illicit_financial_flows_in_zimbabwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2665/3079/files/capitalismo_para_principiantes_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4686/9911/files/nuance_converter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5844/4958/files/zubewakuvidesokivimomirug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1425/7815/files/kunesiviz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4077/6090/files/zukevikalotazu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8649/5397/files/wumezozirewozojiwoxivotob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2023/0564/files/lareruraduvixepozujekowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1540/4695/files/19664024151.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_off0000561b.bin
993a243c291d4534463f810f85788fb0ab680e14e40283f47bc3ecfe06c1517b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x561B 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006843.bin
5f868670364f30167d17989e444ba0e4cff07b94309cb4ff2f2c22e5d6bce9ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6843 10320 bytes