Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd2b2e4cdaa318af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-07-18 20:14:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: acdb5e9a778c0fde23bad336d2da08e6 SHA-1: 865ae3e400e50ae3a1e48a60fe7ad65f70d08430 SHA-256: fd2b2e4cdaa318afba241d61ba0292b2574a90f211e765ccee5cab346966fcc7
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicate a pattern of link farming designed to direct users to potentially harmful sites. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests an attempt to disguise the malicious links as educational material.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=direct%20object%20pronouns%20spanish%202%20worksheet
    • http://files.anroflowers.co.za/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740659/tugikavezoderotet.pdf
    • http://files.skmusicboosters.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682745/riwinuzuwamavo-dogiv-tugaletivima-xosiz.pdf
    • http://files.worldofhello.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738501/xefexexujazi.pdf
    • http://files.forsythcountywomensclub.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379544/7371891.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3998/8648/files/67876398570.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7465/0261/files/sesajatirewukibukiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3481/files/77076076736.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9141/8518/files/netapupono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bopeberovejaxurid.pdf
    • https://vatudig.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/48525889289.pdf
    • https://mitokoru.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/jekev.pdf
    • https://pimudan.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/rijefubaxukeje.pdf
    • https://jojiwone.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/miregazog.pdf
    • https://pulanaradi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/34302115866.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9779/2420/files/bugepasamegobuseramura.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3917/8399/files/dovesuxigawizukexumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/47184882359.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/defipoduxemenoninal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6282/files/23200869749.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9386/8187/files/fusug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dogazuzotefoninu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6487/6453/files/rasoxodupije.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_off00006ac6.bin
54b1c07cfd746b261b6ac0c6d8d5be086a534b236786036c824b6d57dc8b3245
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AC6 5376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d12.bin
ba4643348d606c981b385148433332245285cb2b47128d9988f15d6260eecbc0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D12 10332 bytes