Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 347982adb1e1d074…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 17:25:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 11e6de38fbaaf47ab36d7c510b626ac9 SHA-1: cc035d9f00c7e87862b73ea1f4eeb541b5c70da5 SHA-256: 347982adb1e1d074077b17f3c55e85ec03de1d93df6d98fcd3c85c2758e4c95f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links that point to a known malicious redirector, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'sample staff meeting minutes template' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure to redirect the user to a harmful site. The presence of numerous other PDF links, as noted by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, further indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination.

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/wix?keyword=sample+staff+meeting+minutes+template
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0048/7332/files/suvewimurivopageb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3146/8951/files/31641179483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5193/4108/files/56965303365.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b6bf5b_d34744c007af42868e56895627fa69da.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1216/1685/files/audit_and_assurance_acca.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/67572949107.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8196/5461/files/massage_gift_certificate_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7701/6483/files/14495982916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4668/0214/files/stare_of_disapproval.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/3586/4736/files/soxugepebanemuzowujowana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4295/5676/files/geometry_translation_worksheets_grade_5.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_off0000710a.bin
1c5b8db850b2d80a4d864f165d4ddb9ec5a86b38cb34c444e0b5a13e4b67cc6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x710A 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082c3.bin
5d13678a34ba98f82558030e8cfb84d4a36dd128795176f2285ac53bbc775477
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82C3 10296 bytes