Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35c78cef2b098475…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-18 20:28:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9c9ff878d6f0d43b7662e12f24cf9877 SHA-1: ec08b29b31e8ad066518d60002296e18d2ac9115 SHA-256: 35c78cef2b0984750eaeb5d029c674aa1da80f2b94c8da100a21fed75f8ea7b6
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as an Apple user guide, which is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms the link points to known malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the lure text and the malicious URL.

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.ru/pify?keyword=apple+user+guide+for+ipad+2
    • http://josel.harmonyon2wheels.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164496/918bdfdad42.pdf
    • http://files.clarevet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738814/6baf8b64a8319.pdf
    • http://files.iamsefo.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874329/witemarisibig_jimanozuduf_rujotisum_bunubitopuxowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7446/0579/files/36521666708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4684/6107/files/21197394526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7931/8166/files/personal_statement_for_university_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/86012152415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1716/7267/files/87297794321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5283/3695/files/pejuda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/88071091663.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0669/7367/files/jukezifabegezupomaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8361/9738/files/38635429066.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4111/1716/files/18579925871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8199/0304/files/kixuwitedabote.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1389/7372/files/belden_8760_cable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/pelonenifofuwajejo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063c6.bin
0be4ab2e7d7833078a33b281cc35ff2ae82eca2fc1f482d47d4e5d896d4862bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63C6 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075ec.bin
0b38f6fd5e0b54bfa22d5adee1cfe00629fe134100fc7cfc1ad14a2ab7974207
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75EC 6148 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000085cb.bin
2d9f7f9616b7e8d84615aa5500f4b8c922035ba0f2e4d970f501546caf64fb89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85CB 9884 bytes