Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7d05ee09d454834…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 00:49:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cf5b215ee8567b134d70c6d48dcd3c83 SHA-1: 16b537fa77f99e311d4a0f7539dfb74530bd7e50 SHA-256: f7d05ee09d4548340b11e29c212037cdf64279cd452d1f9e4f55e8ef94ffdf48
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically a URL designed to obfuscate the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Algebra 1 equation sheet' and a URL that appears to be the primary lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to distribute malicious content.

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=algebra+1+equation+sheet
    • http://files.mylunarsign.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857482/6fcae3.pdf
    • http://files.hollyhmiddouche.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438071/738dd704b112eb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7807/5036/files/54127863415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7016/7967/files/42862067154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3585/files/bimasekexazewewozene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9461/3924/files/latest_tamil_movies_mp4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5432/6179/files/vujozanugidokijem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lonub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7319/8497/files/structural_building_components.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3375/4780/files/cardio_workout_program.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9726/8128/files/dibabitewojatakot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6134/6466/files/5380455819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5387/5357/files/tidowanodikuvuwexiker.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2472/files/xilifugukax.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_off00005afa.bin
3697c2ca920f5ea9eb8fc21fb20b835ef51c6d1d2ead5dd061b2a5610edaeb14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AFA 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cd1.bin
bc0a209a3dc3c71f0529e7e21592e3ad4422b2a5fb50fe245532b0359381cf26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CD1 8880 bytes