Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c451150a9b7ca2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 11:40:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1d32b1ab2ac4b8395d9f881b9bf306a0 SHA-1: 51fdf6811174fb0fe7ebd8ecc43e1a775cde958c SHA-256: 3c451150a9b7ca2be82233c3f49264320a39907620390b14782f05f15f9982a0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain a mix of metadata and URLs, suggesting a lure to external content. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to malicious or spam-linked content via the numerous embedded 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.me/wix?keyword=jaysinh+kapadia+dds
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3731/0632/files/44185231941.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/1355/4596/files/ravimatiregaxatagipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9073/8328/files/bangladesh_railway_job_circular_2020_notice.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b5dee72b39b8427087733b168de09a7f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/696b8a_5ffec19e353742da81f013e1ccc6f7de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dd9dd0d62511484da7117de698f3ab76.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a107db_5ed87018ec7a499e88c7f86320be7890.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8a419d_9f3284ff330841d6beae4b0e478d3891.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0656/6306/files/tisemujutiwatekamovudusos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6208/1174/files/craap_test_worksheet_high_school.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8907/3062/files/the_caliphate_of_banu_umayyah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2492/5340/files/kepunivuguganabeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1977/9741/files/magic_moments_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0223/2983/files/2287832209.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/4562/8578/files/steam_client_mac.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_off0000685d.bin
dcfd48d60533780e0ebc40f840a075272ccadab207a147df96b4eafe21ce24a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x685D 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000799d.bin
ee7233e4af4c230b83c512773ee1e96f7d2cf0066e47df69074938287f71ef21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x799D 10176 bytes