Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e5593b327677bf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-10 17:19:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1eca27961a53ac828acf6c64dffaf7d7 SHA-1: c5da83f3e28fd9088cfb2aef7de61d60b0b3c303 SHA-256: 3e5593b327677bf230ff1a636fe93d60048640ae806f6ed9301b60386e48836b
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a PDF link farm. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains URLs that appear to be part of this link farm. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack pattern appears to be SEO manipulation or hosting malicious content via numerous external 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.ru/pify?keyword=public+holidays+2020+nsw+pdf
    • http://bigegu.t3wellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380429/6b8b7410.pdf
    • http://files.iainrobinson.online/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681153/6442141.pdf
    • http://files.thesumrallfamily.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680962/japetalewopu-fipoj-votojafex.pdf
    • http://files.goreybypass.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163738/8280560.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wexidemunuviviradepinitim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1867/3566/files/barron_s_essential_words_for_the_ielts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6659/7288/files/97597419681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6573/7370/files/bizuvegazexugotudujewusit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3900/6618/files/15289767241.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3726/8900/files/64149222805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6423/9014/files/buvarojerumatabulij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9880/8224/files/weviwanetozoragoxowafok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3896/9749/files/mexutizukojaxazasutal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2160/6817/files/84928703598.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7604/3423/files/pixuzuxado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8789/files/tejarenosidemobedul.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_off00005efc.bin
def883a46eb065e4e8e4a2cfbac0758558e6e7225fd135a3f7dd8b5789cc9a87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EFC 5756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000729a.bin
69d75ef70087a900b127cb70124d378c0bc033e42f013398b27a8321aad1f4c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x729A 10012 bytes