Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3aa1324cf0b55632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 02:03:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dbc072844b3a219b91c71334741ba722 SHA-1: c60f9d614883998d0230d2303075e2e9d5645b16 SHA-256: 3aa1324cf0b5563277f562c5a0c08901f34cdc1c9d76565b918ee1964e46f1f9
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a large number of embedded links, including one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL as the malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to phishing or malware download pages.

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/pify?keyword=common+biomedical+waste+treatment+facility+pdf
    • http://files.afchoir.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873732/jilubegafojegad.pdf
    • http://files.cincodemayosaintpaul.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871864/1583067.pdf
    • http://files.merakidestinationmanagement.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407857/3920884.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8255/5297/files/tulazizadaneruforo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2668/5850/files/nemadup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7478/0312/files/17442090617.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9124/7779/files/peboze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0311/7719/files/basic_synonyms.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7270/7990/files/lofofaluzimuzulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4581/3414/files/34564450002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5672/5159/files/mumaponugoso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9718/5701/files/gexegave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zejakepujubuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9245/7112/files/suxapajavu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7846/7222/files/how_to_record_a_discord_call.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5630/8123/files/principles_of_genetics_snustad_6th_edition.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_off000051df.bin
61ba090ecf7ed44571ff745dd56b8bc99030364ab9843103b3a68be75a004576
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51DF 5540 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064aa.bin
59ee2828490e11676cb4c10c915b2a4649edbd0da0a302f666a77294b529e62e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64AA 12704 bytes