Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35d4f0fea7f9fbf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-31 05:01:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e3bf743f8dd4f2dc750b6eb27d893667 SHA-1: 58f4e1b6566790437615cd671a5bd02185f22613 SHA-256: 35d4f0fea7f9fbf0eaea168b911f223aabd1e9d3da7f8f47345d0443107932fd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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=reservoir+dogs+tipping
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/895bef_0f4caada3e04405f9e4b68808fc66315.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d9d1f5_c4703afd2558453a944c5b114b0adf7d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_cfab78b709794cb38016e9212f567d63.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8df1bf6221554a348baa1b47088b99a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_529e85e8eafa4c27acd767bef33f89b5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33c377_b1eee0df0bdb47eda6e3edb017428d61.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b4a0729e245046edae04b76f9e289909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/duvam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/boges.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6cfc61_5365c3448bd243c9bc5495dbb913e8ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5ac3ee028dd74febb13802a87a7de7f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_24701f51696246a39130affad968ae1a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/55f640_26e4a5badadc4d5385fd6048461fd17c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9734e7_afc57578b61b47d9bea8510921b00b97.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_off00007d47.bin
c63cbeb8ba1a81059ccc9c0567aa4ff563d4aeacac1b68d034c2612091bd100c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D47 4952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e43.bin
8755c008f6a814e4ca28854d1d2a074f06cb505ae2d67109ad999953eec46292
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E43 10316 bytes