Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e162abc25b6e945…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 00:31:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1081229e27dced396cb907e4beaf57f2 SHA-1: 32f86c6f043747ff9954e6888bcc9aacc95fdf17 SHA-256: 3e162abc25b6e945e4a75a52e112250337adfc0290f21f27a11147b3ed76343f
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same malicious URL. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be a lure using a tax form to redirect users to 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.cc/pify?keyword=2017+form+1040+itemized+deduction+worksheet
    • http://guxim.cryptofleamarket.co/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483416/lubemepixisuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4137/9736/files/letter_h_tracing_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8612/7009/files/47032072567.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1995/2540/files/wedavirerutorobeduwadoxof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2358/7733/files/830341136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5093/3155/files/gexiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5144/9496/files/4539693675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7309/3288/files/lixanitolis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1339/7913/files/53347741166.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9906/2421/files/array_of_colours.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6350/9143/files/vert_shock_week_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5778/9593/files/dawn_of_war_dark_crusade_mods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2324/5216/files/photo_collage_templates_for_photographers.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_off00008e32.bin
713f8f2cbf4a5f13ec4cc2113100088782e136c5d241f7664fc9554cb6aa70d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E32 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a14d.bin
71dbf5e17156fbc57c73b8b637fa8280d94b16eab0b5a3570a5718feb403ed8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA14D 10916 bytes