Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee41d1ded7e5684a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 16:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d077028ea140df5a8c94fcaea468d580 SHA-1: 09850a878abb347763865e9b043fa974514f44a4 SHA-256: ee41d1ded7e5684a9feb15d9f8db295e69b9a6b8cbf99cd08b3597f4b9749ad9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, disguised as an academic resource. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wix?keyword=biology+answer+key+2019+quarterly
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8228/4194/files/gejafakamu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2269/4046/files/inlet_guide_vane_control_compressor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/3905/8070/files/71709819508.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9285/6232/files/abrsm_syllabus_overlap_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/maduxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4372/4186/files/jivujije.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a86d68_fbd12066ad87445096d38c08a5522813.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40b9e6_965b2773c02f42eb9b60eb21ee5056cd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a5dd74ee3ad4427f93df57699b33fe1d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0ad6c7_33bb6ce59c3c49b58fe1d4800a3c6ff3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d01287_18053b764de64d6282046040632053e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db93e9_e233f31b36194109b531a51c421045fe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_68c779775dc84d89981327673fac6f1a.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_off00005629.bin
977ec855ced708a62420fb8722e7b8bddc0ec3cba915f87a9e2fe102d9ed376d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5629 5768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000069fe.bin
7c29975aa32fa211559ba0300ccc8a0eedf28b1bec017c093bdb16124bbba250
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69FE 10268 bytes