Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 206ad0da628430a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e5cfe2ae66add2decd746c0de368aef0 SHA-1: 637688ee358ce389184e660eff76b6ac15147bbf SHA-256: 206ad0da628430a269bafe895350797bd22d5a148bfc46964fb6cd28661b75d1
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for an 'English french accounting dictionary pdf'. The presence of a large number of external PDF links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. 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=english+french+accounting+dictionary+pdf
    • http://files.beckymathisportraits.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/wawevavaduvolejimit.pdf
    • http://files.web3iot.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637374/1367274.pdf
    • http://wuwoleje.gardenofweedin.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873851/e0327cc794.pdf
    • http://files.chivertonrda.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438639/5243852.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pepefawabibuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1596/9688/files/57594027841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5197/3794/files/xebaxanejora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7793/5004/files/dalixiweg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3224/7445/files/84964570583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0096/files/7453019821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6345/9496/files/44787132472.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5563/5871/files/61910606512.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gekisemegudifusoledo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8279/2606/files/broadcom_802._11ac_network_adapter_driver.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6025/7177/files/48929805450.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_off000086a4.bin
61f3a93825aa5cb93fa61b72f16f10eeaa9e1edf76455b7339385dbf108ba342
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86A4 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009952.bin
105a10ff6223aa2d913b3d229923ea011a23ab0bc11584a6906f7a6665b08730
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9952 9740 bytes