Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3aa142daecb5f9a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.7 KB Created: 2020-08-21 01:11:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 39b3b6dc33d7193a030e203d124a0810 SHA-1: 0b4da02ed55041e55358d8520477f864d0718e3f SHA-256: 3aa142daecb5f9a74c331cb56853932150b452edcff50b1667a6ad28db23316a
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm, with one prominent URL pointing to a malicious redirector. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely to a phishing or malware download site.

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=the+brothers+grimm+spectaculathon+one+act+pdf
    • http://mejot.pleaseinsertgame.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070387/9793c66.pdf
    • http://salagixem.btplacoe.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164366/joxunabobopuso.pdf
    • http://files.holisticblessingsoflove.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407459/c68058f1.pdf
    • http://files.dcsq.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383630/kixogibotovex_sepajemusarad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3529/5905/files/88482310881.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1783/7480/files/81288215819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2353/1158/files/presbyterian_healthcare_services_annual_report_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5513/5390/files/jurnal_bivalvia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5713/5257/files/bronkiektasis_pdpi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0076/6369/files/dutijidida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9784/8996/files/mukigefuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9291/1007/files/63872750275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4085/0598/files/52553211172.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_off00004d69.bin
a5c5e09ef1f2a053b22ba99ec5a978efa398f65e8f30095cab27e0db8fd3d942
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D69 5660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000607d.bin
6a062219c1a522319c3ccde387d2913360d45cc534e2f7d65bcf5a5bce889c7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x607D 9752 bytes