Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a5214e6e7125e21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-05 07:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a1b21b1ccdd75c40ca83b7414a0f52f3 SHA-1: aeef4cbab4f7d3c6673fa7df047e81f10f3ad7ad SHA-256: 1a5214e6e7125e2194d8974c4397d06be3bdb563b32000a9035530d6c74628af
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'dehydration in infants pdf' and the malicious URL itself, suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the presence of numerous other PDF links, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic further supports the malicious classification.

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/pify?keyword=dehydration+in+infants+pdf
    • http://files.mansfieldvineyard.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874122/c8ff7ecda0f3.pdf
    • http://gadibap.denisehartzler.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738524/zegunujegidunitam.pdf
    • http://files.livingwithmetta.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776054/5a0f6e1894110.pdf
    • http://files.eaglerivermassage.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681342/5863774.pdf
    • http://files.18q-adifferentkindofnormal.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606605/7703659.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8234/0770/files/nilagojadugifuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4827/8935/files/goxowoxugiforiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/kubudozavikozepukeje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xokuwunojuvilil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5515/3303/files/99598376898.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1872/2207/files/jikefekup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2743/files/tazon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7737/8972/files/buxagifusadinisaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5483/3557/files/rozilejonivupuwiwapol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0241/3735/files/signing_naturally_7-_12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96226605796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6462/3265/files/65244343685.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0686/8126/files/genetic_engineering_textbook.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_off00007240.bin
8f7c6c9d8c4dc8679cf401bea854a2f65e456ad4724a0e7f54a5e66e9b5087de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7240 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000083f6.bin
5dd4b9ea2cb6f034e6035480a1c6adca1a82ccdd222a2d3e75e127d891f4ba47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83F6 11000 bytes