Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f35e9b2a3e010ecc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-07-30 10:11:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d076593b3696796f5f47fd9e425e4a0a SHA-1: e4a1814c737b2ca8d13320240938236ee354e721 SHA-256: f35e9b2a3e010ecceae89be9e335f2b566bd6da1eecf96a8928254b08a82f380
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to academic documents. The ML classifier also 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.cc/pify?keyword=pensum+de+medicina+uasd+plan+13+pdf
    • http://files.beithashaar.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437806/8265621.pdf
    • http://files.massagemarketing101.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409074/gukadedeti.pdf
    • http://files.foreverearthbound.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453894/ca80be6e0220.pdf
    • http://files.mail.asifoundations.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636655/5325190.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9792/2461/files/romanoxibirunoputuger.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3410/8323/files/2931533759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6869/4423/files/dagikapagofijetevadeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3606/5438/files/vapiwowimokuvefigerudake.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9728/3992/files/47550716842.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7052/9436/files/11750205899.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8005/5958/files/zupajer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38684703775.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9875/1641/files/62462484971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6696/4630/files/mifiluteduxegizaxowadugef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5652/9557/files/fumipofilerorute.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2616/9503/files/viguvifamugila.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5251/4971/files/mokijopefiletiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5117/9416/files/pumerixapivox.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3606

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007609.bin
ca7a6792158415ac2d01a1ad26d2ca0fed63be86f82b2aa0247011d180156046
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7609 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000874e.bin
381a7bcd16488c1016d705b11c8bad95d848e2fadc94707a148568bfb85777da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x874E 10216 bytes