Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cb62d4782dbc876…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 20:50:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ce3ee470cfffd53262b82ad8379dea59 SHA-1: 72cce7adeb8b38001713da72b2068ec5cb2f6f00 SHA-256: 3cb62d4782dbc876e3890fea9ed0683620130f6b809a4d1fa8881da7acf9404c
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a free PDF download, indicating a lure. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to seemingly unrelated domains, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content.

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=human+anatomy+and+physiology+2nd+edition+pdf+free
    • http://files.willowfree.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740344/xiwodufa.pdf
    • http://files.scottmassagetherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874333/nuwigilur.pdf
    • http://files.coxfalconbaseball.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606546/7083718.pdf
    • http://files.maknjacks.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164556/6877733.pdf
    • http://files.tonysaladinobaseballtournament.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740804/3405880.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1040/7069/files/45403596797.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5982/2243/files/42684414320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8148/1884/files/20187295723.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/nuselejebifulozameka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5481/6665/files/41487569585.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1034/2559/files/jipukirutezaselaka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8199/0304/files/35876435945.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2011/6387/files/kofib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9358/9142/files/gusomazimewog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3529/5905/files/jizavubosulesufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5238/1846/files/sebavozobitosulodut.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_off0000699b.bin
0ef62132e45ab856a57787a0baa2eca9ad910681c83d0e083fe02195c74fc303
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x699B 5652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cb2.bin
0aa3a1dab98202605817f583fedf52b892de01597720326da31bf21bc32d4f74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB2 10740 bytes