Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd60161965fcfbb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 13:15:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 144892d1025fc2755a6c536a4caa64d8 SHA-1: e1934874799e85ef8c25b057a20c892316ca6c69 SHA-256: fd60161965fcfbb50f8a9b8d5b469ff9148989be39331484e453c59deb93ff00
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive link disguised as a search result for a free encyclopedia, which redirects to a known malicious URL. This indicates a social engineering tactic to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful site. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and multiple heuristics confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation.

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/pify?keyword=the+new+children+s+encyclopedia+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.icerandw.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695813/1063741.pdf
    • http://jotok.richardswainshortstories.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/8737590.pdf
    • http://files.how2productions.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379830/77a25f40465cb7.pdf
    • http://files.noidurham.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814935/nupokanovalo-diwedixiluverap.pdf
    • http://files.peakhealthcaremaryland.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406816/rizapisopasiraluzoga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6404/9318/files/6345632940.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6299/2799/files/kukodugaxisejemuxakavu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6653/8649/files/96660808864.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0077/2246/files/tosusaboputozafuzal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8547/1656/files/roads_to_geometry_solutions_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7300/3939/files/lorivinosolunitaxubi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3490/0637/files/vetevixibariletujodop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5748/7778/files/wuroxumenafogewugit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4731/2789/files/vipaxita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3825/0910/files/aoe_2_hd_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7821/9944/files/kugevalibaxale.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_off00007831.bin
17cd71c97faa972ca7c4a0079603d3aae32dcef4d6a9a563bb5457296e0a3b23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7831 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008a91.bin
1c6505d34f887bf3a9eb9758c2b85938088db88c20930303501a659c233694b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A91 11188 bytes