Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 384b56e11b5dff09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-09-06 21:21:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39974a7b935bf2ff7605e07b8e842233 SHA-1: 0a2c5aa2ebdc329bb2c3bf5f07fb1dde48431304 SHA-256: 384b56e11b5dff0967213c9ad46f530901e53eaf1bfbeb21d7dfa2bfea1de22f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a PDF link farm. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or hosting malicious content via numerous external links.

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.club/wix?keyword=campylobacter+jejuni+reportable+disease
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bf302_b3d6ddf69dbd4f04a80c83aed07bf416.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ac701_ca5e51cfc0964374b5a6fdfdd0e83126.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5926b4_3a1578180bb84485b95d38f5224004cf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05900a_3a8c0795aa3c4ff6ae64c6f0310ae0bd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_006d5a0a982742478c06803b5a634c69.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3826db_82f22fa4532048609015453a71cc0a08.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7d1dc9_83abe3fbbdad45c1b56b799e9326c450.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a16d_0c9b9afda1da436889ddf943f1f00845.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7dd30d_9af81e1f16b640c4ad9bf7432eabe320.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0049ca_41348285e8994b0284a645204bd3bea0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6982/4414/files/93872783007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2630/0575/files/vebomusibisutukabisafuzu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6544/1430/files/perapubodibene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5997/9174/files/21974547487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/ketosteril_tablet.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_off00005c12.bin
c09796f46f5c3f55ea3f4c25521f7d012607339668fe2800a0f59790270c5662
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C12 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e79.bin
01435d3257ac7992eef5f77aeccaf2ea414f1ebcde85c0962d1eb698f1078a05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E79 9908 bytes